Vocabulary
Evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
What is elude?
A character in a work who does not change.
What is a static character?
Janie’s first husband.
Who is Logan Killicks?
The type of pet Nick had for a few days before it ran away.
What is a dog?
A famous symbol that symbolizes young Janie’s awakening consciousness, curiosity, sexuality.
What is the "blossoming pear tree"?
No longer existing or functioning.
What is defunct?
An image, object, character, situation, theme, even a word that the writer uses repeatedly throughout a work.
What is a motif?
The first thing Joe buys for Eatonville after becoming mayor.
What is a street lamp?
The cardinal virtue Nick suspects of himself.
What is honesty?
Tom’s wedding gift for Daisy.
What is a pearl necklace?
A trace of something that is now vanished or lost.
What is a vestige?
A disruption to the equilibrium of the story that introduces the conflict.
What is a complication?
The girl who wrestles with Tea Cake in the Everglades and inspires Janie’s jealousy.
Who is Nunkie?
The two physical “proofs” Gatsby initially shows Nick of his background.
What is the medal from Montenegro and the photo from Oxford?
Flirtatious behavior or a flirtatious manner.
What is coquetry?
Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
What is ostentatious?
A story in which all the characters participate in a web of symbolism; they have a one-to-one correspondence with religious, political, or moral ideas they represent in a deeper layer of symbolism.
What is an allegory?
The reason why the mule is freed.
What is Joe overhears Janie expressing sympathy for the mule?
The name of George Wilson’s neighbor who runs a coffee joint.
What is Michaelis?
A dramatic personal insight that comes upon the protagonist suddenly.
What is an epiphany?
Apparently attractive but in reality having no value or integrity.
What is meretricious?
When the setting alludes to events in the world beyond the little circuit of the characters; the drama of the protagonist’s story is surrounded by a larger drama involving all society.
What is an enveloping action?
The amount of money Janie hides in her shirt when she and Tea Cake go to Jacksonville.
What is $200?
Name at least two activities from Gatsby’s schedule from when he was a boy that his dad shows Nick.
What are rise from bed; dumbbell exercise and wall-scaling; study electricity; work; baseball and sports; practice elocution, poise and how to attain it; study needed inventions?
The character who phones for his “tennis sneakers” after Gatsby’s death.
What is Klipspringer?