Figurative Language
A comparison using like or as
Simile
against
anti-
emotional appeal
pathos
The main character
Gatsby
describing a character
A comparison without using like or as
Metaphor
opposite
dis-
logical appeal
logos
The narrator
Nick Carraway
language that is used unconventionally.
figurative language
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things
Personification
before
fore-
ethical appeal or credibility
ethos
The love interest
Daisy Buchanan
a problem in a story
The same sound repeated at the start of the word
Alliteration
inter-
a question not meant to be answered
rhetorical question
what the eyes represent
God
the actual meaning of a word
denotation
Description of a thing, place, idea, etc.
Imagery
among
intra-
the art of persuasion
the overall meaning of the novel
the death of the american dream
the figurative meaning of a word
connotation