The Great Gatsby
A Mouse or a Man?
Literary Terms
Say What?
On the Road
100
First name of the main character of this novel.
What is Jay?
100
Names of the tw main characters of 'Of Mice and Men'.
What is George/Lennie?
100
What the story is about.
What is theme?
100
Term used when a speaker or writer appeals to the feelings of the audience.
What is pathos?
100
The first name of the narrator.
What is Sal?
200
Place where both the main character and the narrator live.
What is West Egg?
200
The name of the farm's one-armed swamper.
What is Candy?
200
When the narrator is 'I'.
What is first person narration?
200
When something is said again...and again...and again.
What is repetition?
200
The author of 'On the Road'.
Who is Jack Kerouac?
300
The full name of the novel's narrator.
What is Nick Carraway?
300
The name of the only black character in the novel.
What is Crooks?
300
When something in a story represents something broader and more general.
What is symbolism?
300
Words like: 'Stalin', 'plague', 'Nazism', 'Holocaust', etc.
What are loaded words?
400
The name of Gatsby's love interest.
Who is Daisy?
400
Town from which the two main characters have just fled at the beginning of Ch. 1.
What is Weed?
400
Imagery used to paint a picture which itself admits to be untrue.
What is a simile?
400
Rhetorical tool used when Obama tells an untrue story of republican politicians driving a car into the ditch.
What is a metaphor?
400
City where several characters are heading to visit Old Bull Lee.
What is New Orleans?
500
The name of the narrator's love interest.
What is Jordan Baker?
500
The name of the aunt who used to take care of the biggest and mebtally challenged of the two main characters.
What is Clara?
500
When some apparently insignificant elements of the story suggest that certain things will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
When you tell the audience what to do.
What is the imperative form?
500
The name of Dean Moriarty's primary love interest besides Marylou.
Who is Camille?
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