Vocabulary
These are young women known for energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many as outrageous.
What is a flapper?
This is the year The Great Gatsby was published.
What is 1925?
This interrupts dinner at the Buchanan house creating tension.
What is Tom gets called away to take a phone call?
This is where George Wilson's garage is located.
What is Valley of Ashes?
This is what is surprising about the Gatsby's library shelves.
What is the books are real and not decoration?
This is what Jordan claimed happened between Daisy and Tom in the past.
What is they were engaged, but Daisy chose Tom?
This is when the author tells the reader directly about a character's traits.
What is direct characterization?
This is prohibition.
What is the act of forbidding something by law?
This is the author of The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This is why the phone call Tom receives creates tension.
What is Jordan reveals it is Tom's mistress on the phone?
This is who is married to George and involved with Tom.
What is Myrtle Wilson?
What is Gatsby introduces himself after they talk about the war?
This is what Daisy did the night before her wedding.
What is she received a letter, drank heavily and panicked about marrying Tom?
This shows character traits through actions, dialogue, thoughts, appearance and interactions with others.
What is indirect characterization?
This is an important lesson the author wants you to take away from a story.
What is theme?
This is a type of music being promoted by inventions such as the phonograph and the radio, swept up from New Orleans.
What is the jazz age?
This is the advice Nick's dad gives him about judging others.
What is not everyone had the same advantages you had?
This is how Myrtle's nose got broken.
What is Tom struck her?
This is what happens at the end of Gatsby's party showing disorder.
What is a drunken car accident that draws a crowd?
This is why Gatsby wants Nick to set up the meeting between him and Daisy.
What is because Gatsby is afraid and wants the meeting to look accidental?
This is a protagonist.
What is the main character?
This is a physical object that represents something other than their literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
These are the 3 themes of The Great Gatsby.
What are the roaring 20s and recklessness, social class and The American Dream?
This is what Nick notices about Gatsby before even speaking to him.
What is Gatsby is alone and reaching toward the bay?
This is what Tom's behavior suggests about his idea of consequences.
What is he believes they apply to other people and not him?
This is why Gatsby invites Nick to lunch.
What is Gatsby wants Nick to hear his version of his past instead of believing gossip?
This is who creates conflict in the story.
What is an antagonist?
This is The American Dream.
What is rising above poverty to wealth?
This is the main idea of The article, Roaring 20s.
What is Americans were indulging in excess, unaware this could contribute to an economic crisis?
This is what the green light is associated with.
What is Gatsby's distant longing?
This show Gatsby is trying to make his background sound respectable.
What is he emphasizes wealth, tradition and education as proof of legitimacy?
This is a group of people that came of age during World War 1.
What is The Lost Generation?
This is text evidence supporting the main idea of the article, Roaring 20s.
What is "Americans were happily spending money they had saved"?
This is the effect Gatsby's "proof" has on Nick.
What is his story seems rehearsed, but the items make it harder to dismiss his story?