Literary Devices
What is the literary device?The setting of the novel, The Great Gatsby, is the city of New York and its Long Island with two fictional towns East Egg and West Egg.
what is setting?
Who said and why: "Ol' Sport"
Gatsby adopts this catchphrase, which was used among wealthy people in England and America at the time, to help build up his image as a man from old money,
What is the literary device and what does it mean? Mama's plant in Raisin in the Sun?
What is symbolism representing hope.
Who said and why: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
The witches say this and it reflects the theme of reality vs appearance.
What is the theme and explain it in context of the novel? "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
What is the American Dream that often elludes us in the 1920s?
What is the literary device? "The winds curiosity was arroused."
what is personification?
Who said and why: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
What is Nick as not so honest?
What is the literary device: Raisin in the Sun
What is an allusion referring to Langston Hughes poem Harlem: It is about putting off dreams.
Who says "tomorrow, tomorrow, and tomorrow" and why?
Macbeth says this as he ponders the passage of time and futility of life.
Gatsby meets Daisy and tries to revive his past love, seeing that he has achieved fame through his riches and would get her
What is the American Dream?
What is the literary device: Weather in The Great Gatsby.
what is a motif?
Who said and why: And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Daisy said this because women were not thought of as intelligent in the 1920s.
What is the literary device: Gatsby is the center of attention of the parties, nobody shows up at his funeral except one person.
What is irony?
Who says and why:
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
What is Nick as judgmental, and privileged.
What is the theme? Explain. “Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.”
Lady Macbeth instructs Macbeth to weaponize deception.
What is the literary device: This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.
What is imagery?
Who said and why: “And we have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us brick by brick.”
Walter said this to Linder when he decided to stand up for his family.
What is the literary device when Beneatha cuts her hair?
When Beneatha cuts her hair, she cuts it and dons an afro that represents her heritage. Her new hair symbolizes her beliefs of not conforming to white society's standards as she searches for her identity by looking at the past of her roots in Africa.
Who said:
it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Macbeth says this when he finds out Lady Macbeth has died. He is saying life is loud but it means nothing.
What is the theme:The lush and extravagant parties, the mysterious and rich lifestyles, and extravagant shows of wealth do not go side by the side the sincerity of relations in the human world.
What is materialism?
What literary device does food play when Algernon eats too many muffins?
What is symbolism?
Who said and why: “I am going to be a doctor and everybody around here better understand that!”
Who said Beneatha said this in Raisin in the Sun because she was determined to pursue her dream of being a doctor.
What is the literary device: Walter's and Linder and then Walter and himself. And why?
What is inner and outer conflict? Walter has conflict with Lindner because of what he represents, but Walter's greatest conflict is with all the circumstances that stand between himself and the goal that he is obsessively trying to reach.
Who said, "Out damned spot."
Lady Macbeth says this because she is feeling the guilt of killing Duncan.
Mama: “I ain’t never stopped trusting you. Like I ain’t never stopped loving you.” What is the theme and why?
What is Family, Generational Conflict & Responsibility: Shows the generational love that underpins the family’s survival.