Characterization/ TGG Background
What was prohibition in the 1920s?
The banning of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors
Nella Larsen’s first career before becoming a writer was ____________.
nursing
What is a kite runner?
Someone who retrieves the losing kite of a kite battle.
The Great Gatsby was written by…
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz originated in which city in Louisiana?
New Orleans
A theme of Larsen’s life was…
never belonging
What is it that worries Baba about Amir?
A boy who can’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
Who kills Myrtle?
Daisy
Direct characterization is when...
An author tells the reader explicitly what a character is like through exposition and other character’s descriptions
Which critical lens “examines the relationship between the form and the meaning of the work?”
Formalist
Why does Amir laugh when Assef physically assaults him?
He feels relief from his guilt
In The Great Gatsby, which of these things is NOT symbolized by the green light?
Nature
Optimism
The American Dream
Money
Nature
A stock character…
is a stereotyped character who has recurred so often in fiction that we recognize them immediately
Which critical lens “refers to the social, political, economical, cultural, and intellectual climate of the time?”
Historical
Where do Baba and Amir end up in the U.S.?
Fremont, California
Why does Gatsby throw extravagant parties?
He believes that Daisy may come to a party some night
The acronym STEAL for indirect characterization stands for…
Speech
Thoughts
Effect on others
Actions
Looks
Which critical lens explores “the motivations of characters and the symbolic meanings of events, while biographers speculate about a writer's own motivations - conscious or unconscious - in a literary work?”
Psychological
Why do Baba and Amir leave Kabul?
The invasion by the Russians has turned the country into a dangerous war zone.
In The Great Gatsby, what does Tom accuse Gatsby of?
Illegal activities