Literary Devices
The techniques an author uses—direct or indirect—to reveal a character’s personality
What is characterization?
Effective or Persuasive language
What is Rhetoric?
Margin notes, highlights, and questions that keep readers engaged and help clarify meaning
What is annotation?
This phenomenon occurs when fear spreads rapidly through a community, leading to irrational behavior
What is Mass Hysteria?
This location represents old money in contrast to its neighboring “new money” district
What is East Egg?
A story’s central message, insight, or universal idea
What is theme?
Intentional Word Choice
What is Diction?
Type of reading that involves questioning, annotating, and engaging with the text rather than merely absorbing words
What is allegory for the Red Scare/McCarthyism?
The reason Gatsby changed his name
What is to disregard his old identity & become the person he always wanted to be?
When a concrete object represents an abstract idea, this literary device is at work
The context, time, and circumstances that prompt a speech or text
What is Occasion?
A quick, time-limited form of reading that aims to grasp the structure and main ideas of a text
What is Inspectional Reading?
At the end of the play John does this ____, but then refuses to do this ____
What is confesses to witchcraft and refuses to sign his name?
A desolate industrial wasteland symbolizing moral decay and the cost of wealth
What is The Valley of Ashes?
Direct comparisons between two objects
What is a Metaphor?
Aristotle's 3 Rhetorical Appeals + Define Each
What is ethos (appeal to ethics/credibility), pathos (appeals to emotion), and logos (appeals to logic)?
This type of reading seeks deeper meaning rather than simply gathering facts
What is reading for understanding?
What is the girls confess to dancing in the woods after Betty is found sick?
Gatsby’s rise and fall illustrate this major theme about idealism corrupted by materialism
What is Unattainability of The American Dream?
Language appealing to the five senses
All of the words in SOAPSTone
What is Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone?
Four Levels of Reading
What is Elementary Reading, Inspectional Reading, Analytical Reading, and Syntopical Reading?
Motivations for accusations (list at least three)
The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg symbolize...
What is the moral decay of society being watched by God