The Great Gatsby
The dirty, industrial area between East Egg and West Egg.
What is The Valley of Ashes?
The place where Travis Younger sleeps, since he does not have his own room.
What is a pull-out couch?
Montag’s brittle, sickly-looking wife. She is obsessed with watching television and refuses to engage in frank conversation with her husband about their marriage or her feelings.
Who is Mildred Montag?
A play on words.
What is a pun?
Sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private)
What is "privy"?
Tom’s lover, whose lifeless husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes.
Who is Myrtle Wilson?
The Nigerian man who falls in love with Beneatha Younger.
Who is Joseph Asagai?
A beautiful seventeen-year-old. Sees the world’s potential for beauty and meaning with her gentle innocence and curiosity. She is an outcast from society because of her odd habits, which include hiking, playing with flowers, and asking questions.
Who is Clarisse McClellan?
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
What is an oxymoron?
vague or ill-defined
What is "nebulous"?
The cardinal virtue that Nick Caraway feels he adheres to the most.
What is honesty?
The Clybourne Park "welcoming committee" representative.
Who is Lindner?
Captain Beatty's cause of death.
What is murder by flamethrower?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
Diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength
What is "dwindle"?
The career that a young James Gatz had when he met one Dan Cody.
What is a clam digger?
Asagai claims that this element of Beneatha is unnatural, and goes against their ancestral culture.
What is Beneatha's hairstyle?
Where Mildred hid Montag's books after he pulled them from the vent.
What is behind the fridge?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with something else
What is onomatopoeia?
Tendency to choose or do something regularly; an inclination towards a particular thing
What is "proclivity"?
They come to symbolize the shackles of a loveless marriage between Daisy and Tom, and the choking feeling of isolation. A gift from a stranger. "Take 'em downstairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to."
What are Daisy's wedding pearls?
George calls Walter this, meaning that Walter is being eternally punished for trying to "save" his family.
What is "A Prometheus"?
Captain Beatty claims that this is the real reason books were banned.
What is happiness/no more difference of opinion?
A statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth.
What is a paradox?
Lacking ideas or intelligence
What is "vacuous"?