The Great Gatsby
What is 1922?
Incapable of being penetrated or pierced (adj)
Ex. "Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an ______ cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight" (Fitzgerald 27).
What is impenetrable?
The punctuation mark that most commonly ends sentences.
What is a period?
What is 1914-1918?
Arrogance or ostentation of dress or manner (n)
Ex. "Not even the effeminate ____ of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body" (Fitzgerald 7).
What is swank?
A clause that has subject and a verb but can't stand on its own.
What is a dependent clause?
Where Nick Carraway, the protagonist, is originally from.
What is the Midwest?
Something very strange, bizarre, distorted, or ugly in a way that feels unnatural or unsettling (adj)
Ex. "I couldn't sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams" (Fitzgerald 147).
What is grotesque?
The only punctuation mark that can join two independent clauses.
What is a semicolon?
What is three months?
Distrustful of human nature and motives (adj)
Ex. "Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty ____ about everything" (Fitzgerald 16).
What is cynical?
When a comma incorrectly separates two independent clauses.
Ex. We are so excited for family weekend, everyone is here to visit.
What is a comma splice?
The first name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife.
What is Zelda?
Arrogant, haughty (adj)
Ex. "Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a manner" (Fitzgerald 7).
The citation style that most English papers are written in.
What is MLA? (Modern Language Association)