A viable and lasting twentieth-century movement in literature and painting that juxtaposed the most unlikely images upon one another in an attempt to achieve a "super" realism was called

A. Expressionism.
B. Dadaism.
C. Cubism.
D. Surrealism.


Answer: D

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