Vocab
“Bitter winds battered the broken barn.”
Alliteration
Instead of "diction" you should say...
language
author's or speaker's attitude
Tone
The East Egg and West Egg primarily represents
Inherited wealth and newly acquired wealth.
Name the rhetorical appeals
Ethos, Pathos, Logos
“The wind whispered through the empty streets.”
What is Personification
Who is King directly responding to in his letter?
Eight white Alabama clergymen who criticized the demonstrations.
the literal, objective, or dictionary definition of a word
Denotation
What device does Fitzgerald use when Daisy’s voice is described as “full of money”?
Metaphor
Rhetoric is
ANY communication used to modify the perspective of others
“Outside the mansion, families huddled beneath torn blankets.”
Juxtaposition
What tense should you generally use to analyze a text?
Present
situational event where there is a contrast between expectation and reality.
Irony
What does Gatsby send someone to do before Daisy visits Nick’s house?
Mow Nick’s lawn.
SPACE in SPACECAT Stands for...
Speaker, Purpose, Audience, Context, Exigence
“He met his Waterloo during the final debate.”
What is Allusion
Line of reasoning is...
A connected progression of claims and evidence that develops and supports the essay’s thesis.
the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences,
anaphora
What does Gatsby’s father show Nick that reveals Gatsby’s early ambitions?
A daily schedule and list of personal resolutions written in a childhood book.
Exigence is....
The exact event or moment that motivated the speech/writing
“A deafening silence filled the room.”
Oxymoron
Two bibical figures King alludes to..
Apostle Paul, Amos, Jesus, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
A strict, specific form of juxtaposition that must use direct opposites arranged in a perfectly balanced sentence pattern.
Antithesis
What does Klipspringer call Gatsby’s house about after Gatsby’s death?
Retrieving a pair of tennis shoes he left there.
Kairos is...
the rhetorical principle of choosing the right time, place, and situation to communicate a message.