Words, Words, Words
This word means "difficult to deal with"
Formidable
State the speaker:
“You can’t repeat the past.”
Nick
People with NEW money reside here.
West Egg
Fitzgerald frequently uses weather events to reflect occurrences in the novel.
Of what writing strategy is this an example?
Symbolism
Whom is this passage describing?
“He smiled understandingly… It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”
Gatsby
This word means "a passing impulse or thought"
Whim
State the speaker:
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I’ll say it whenever I want to!”
Myrtle
People with OLD money reside here
East Egg
When Gatsby refuses his gardener’s offer to drain the pool early in chapter 9,
of what writing strategy is this an example?
Foreshadowing
Whom is this passage describing?
“...[H]e was a sturdy, straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward”
Tom Buchanan
Fill in the blank:
“Please remove your shoes upon entering the _____.”
Vestibule
State the speaker:
“She was just eighteen, two years older than me and by far the most popular of all the girls in Louisville…”
Jordan Baker
This place is home to a billboard featuring the Eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
Valley of Ashes
Which strategy is exemplified here?
“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling...and the sidewalk was white with moonlight…”
Flashback
Whom is this passage describing?
“He was a blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome.”
George Wilson
This word means, “excessively wordy or talkative”.
Garrulous
State the speaker: “I can’t do it-- I can’t get mixed up in it...Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Meyer Wolfsheim
Nick states that “anything is possible” here; it is also where Nick meets Wolfsheim.
NYC
Which strategy is exemplified here:
“...twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling…”
Metaphor
Whom is this passage describing?
“[He was] a solemn old man very helpless and dismayed...He had reached an age where death no longer had the quality of ghastly surprise…”
Henry Gatz
State one thing a person would do if he/she was magnanimous.
Answers will vary
State the speaker:
“--And I said, ‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God.”
George
Nick realizes at the end of the novel that all five main characters are from here.
West (or Midwest)
Name the TWO strategies exemplified here:
“Gatsby was...aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves...and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.”
Personification and Simile
Whom is this passage describing?
“[He] was fifty years old...The transactions that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money”
Dan Cody