Literary terms
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
This "-ism" is defined as a belief in the equality of people regardless of sexual preference or identity.
What is feminism?
This is what the F stands for, in "F. Scott Fitzgerald."
What is Francis?
Young, stylish women in the 20s were known by this birdlike name.
What are flappers?
This literary term refers to a physical object that represents an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
The type of main character who has the qualities of a hero, but ends up failing.
What is a tragic hero?
Of old money or new money, the one that is inherited.
What is old money?
This is Fitzgerald's wife's name.
What is Zelda?
The law that forbid the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alchohol.
What is Prohibition?
This is the country Fitzgerald and his family were living in when he wrote The Great Gatsby.
What is France?
Two characters who contrast one another in such a way that each becomes more clearly defined are described as this.
What are foils?
This term means a special right or advantage available to some people but not to others.
What is privilege?
After dropping out of school, Fitzgerald did this.
What is joined the army?
Three things flappers did that defied cultural expectations of the time.
What are (any three): drink liquor, smoke, cut their hair short, go out dancing, act carefree, marry later, etc.
This term, frequently associated with extreme racism, refers to a hatred of an entire foreign ethnic or racial group.
What is xenophobia?
This word means a word that is pronounced the same as the sound it describes. Pow! (You must spell it correctly!)
What is onomatopoeia?
This literary lens focuses on how power is expressed in a story, especially power that comes from wealth and/or social class.
What is the Marxist lens?
Within two years, this is the year when The Great Gatsby was written.
What is 1925 (1923-1927)?
This event brought the Roaring 20s to an end.
What is Black Monday, the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This is the name of the artist who designed the novel's cover.
Who is Francis Cugat?
The setting of a story consists of these three things.
What are time, place, and mood?
Though a topic of Gatsby, this concept was first coined in 1931, and refers to the idea of equality and personal success.
What is the American Dream?
Fitzgerald's first novel.
What is This Side of Paradise?
The Roaring 20s saw the mass introduction of new conveniences. Name three.
What are (any three): the automobile, electric lights in homes, the radio, refrigerators, washing machines, movies, record players (phonographs), vacuum cleaners, and more!
Four men served as president during the 1920s. Name three.