Literary Devices
The use of language to represent objects, actions, and/or ideas so as to appeal to a readers senses
Imagery
The book's narrator
Nick Caraway
An incomplete sentence is also referred to as this
Sentence fragment/dependent clause
If there are two or more characters in a story, it is common to have them engage in this
Dialogue
What did Scout dress up as for the school play?
A ham
Giving objects characteristics of people
Personification
How do Nick and Tom know each other?
They were roommates in college
Two complete sentences combined with a semi-colon or a comma and coordinating conjunction
Compound sentence
When writing in the present tense then briefly switching to the past, it's called this
Flashback
Name two reasons why Miss Caroline was surprised by Scout's ability to read
1) Girls didn't read in that time period
2) Atticus is not a teacher
3) Scout's ability is far beyond the class level
The standpoint of the narrator
Point of view
How does Gatsby make his money?
Bootlegging (selling alcohol out of the drug stores he owns)
What is the mnemonic device used to remember the seven coordinating conjunctions?
FANBOYS
An unexpected event usually occurring at the end of a story
Twist (surprising resolution)
This is how Tom Robinson dies
He gets shot while trying to escape prison
This depicts the opposite of what is expected
Irony
What one thing does Gatsby want to hear from Daisy which she cannot say?
That she never loved Tom
Excluding punctuation, what three things are needed to create a complete sentence?
1) Subject
2) Verb
3) Complete idea
When something occurs during a story and something similar happens later in the same story
Foreshadowing
How does Jem take his anger out on the old lady who always yells at him, Scout, and Dill?
Cuts her flowers
A representation of something
Symbol
Why does Nick say Gatsby is great?
He has hope while surrounded by people who have none
Nouns can be subjects as well as these
Objects
Sarcasm puts a story in this writing genre, where Swift's "A Modest Proposal" has a place
Satire
What does Atticus do that surprises his children, especially Jem?
Shoots a rabid dog