The Great Gatsby
Literary Theories
Literary Devices/Conventions
Knowledge Theories
1984
100

The first name of the title character is this.

What is Jay?

100

You interpret the world through the lens of your language.

What is Sapir-Whorf?

100

A poetic shift in tone.

What is a volta?

100

This is the broad study of knowledge, certainty, and self.

What is ontology?

100

She turned Parsons in for thought-crime.

Who is Parson's daughter?

200

The book is set in this era

What are the 1920's?

200

These are the two types of self congruity theory.

What are ideal and actual selves?

200

You suck.

What is ad-hominem?

200

ἀξίωμα: that which commands itself as evident.

What is an axiom?

200

War is peace, freedom is slavery.

What is ignorance is strength?

300

East, West, and Poached.

What is egg?

300

I do not know you, I do not like you. 

What is the inscrutable other?

300

This is the hardest jeopardy question to date.

What is hyperbole?

300

All teachers teach students.

Mr. Dawson is a teacher.

Therefor, Mr. Dawson teaches students.

What is a logical syllogism?

300

The sound of Goldstein's voice changes into this.

What is the sound of a sheep's bleat?

400

According to Daisy, this is the best thing a girl can be.

What is a fool?

400

Also described as the noble savage.

What is the model minority?

400

I trust the person I love to give me the facts.

What are ethos, pathos, and logos?

400

"Pride goeth before a fall."

What is an aphorism?

400

War, rationing, propaganda, and the place where there is no darkness.

What are the ministries of, peace, plenty, truth, and love.

500

Doctor T.J. Eckleburg's eyes do this

What is watch over everything?

500

Excitement, Sincerity, Ruggedness,

What are competence and sophistication?

500

Starts with "s" and ends with "e". It's like a part represents a whole.

What are simile and synecdoche?

500

This question is a question that is what it is because it is a question.

What is a tautological argument?

500

A baker's dozen, an unlucky floor, and three less than sweet. Tick tock.

What is 13?

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