"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us..."
What is Metaphor?
100
Historical, literary, religious, or mythical references...
What is an allusion?
100
After many years of schooling, she was finally able acheive her dream of becoming a member of the BAR.
What is Metonomy? (the bar in a courtroom that separates the judges and lawyers from the laypeople)
100
From Greek mythology... three female entities who pursue wrong-doers relentlessly, until death, often driving them to suicide...
What are the Furies?
100
The word, phrase, or clause referrred by a pronoun
What is antecedent?
200
"An hour later the door opened nervously and Gatsby hurried in..."
What is personification?
200
Characters personify abstractions like hope or freedom in these "stories..."
What is an allegory?
200
Because he didn't follow orders, he was required to go to headquarters and answer to the BRASS.
What is Synecdoche? (metal used in buttons and insignia on military officers' uniforms)
200
It was prophesied that he would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. When he realized that he had... he gouged his eyes out.
Who is Oedipus?
200
An interrogative sentence that is not meant to draw an actual answer. Often the purpose is an Ethos claim.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
"It had seemed as close as a star to the moon."
What is Simile?
300
A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule
What is satire?
300
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your EARS..."
What is Synecdoche (ears meaning to listen)... 300 bonus points if you can correctly identify the source of this line.
300
The site of the final battle during the end times, where the forces of good (God & Christ) battle evil (Devil & Anti-Christ). The term is also used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world scenario.
What is Armegeddon?
300
Construction or pattern of words and phrases that show competing or contrasting ideas... or that create a list to show multiple items of equal importance.
What is parallel structure?
400
"...so I drove to West Egg Village to search for her among soggy whitewashed alleys..."
What is Imagery?
400
Slang or informalities in speech or writing
What is a colloquialism?
400
After years of playing dive bars, the blue grass band finally made it big in NASHVILLE.
What is Metonomy? (the city of Nashville is the center of the country music industry).
400
The Titan god of forethought who molded mankind out of clay... he desired to better the lives of his creation, and so steals the secret of fire from Zeus and gives it to man.
Who is Prometheus? (200 bonus points if you can name his punishment for this deed)?
400
This piece of punctuation often denotes parallel structure.
What is a ;?
500
"I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew."
What is Allusion?
500
Words, phrases, or general tone that are overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.
What is pedantic?
500
The economic downturn hurt profits, and resulted in several employees receiving PINK SLIPS.
What is Metonomy? (a notice firing, historically a slip of pink paper in an employee's pay envelope)
500
Biblical... someone who leaves the fold, falls into wickedness, repents, returns home, and is welcomed with open arms.
What is the Prodigal Son?
500
A specific type of parallel structure... it is the construction of text where to opposites are put adjacent to one another.
What is antithesis? (100 bonus points if you can name the syntactic device that antithesis falls under)