Rhetorical Devices
An appeal to emotions or feelings of the audience.
What is Pathos
Narrator of Gatsby
Who is Nick Carraway?
Name one example of how Fitzgerald uses the weather to develop the plot.
What is rain/tea, heat/confrontation, autumn/death and decay?
Due date for filing taxes annually.
April 15.
An appeal to logic or reason.
What is logos
Old money, rich neighborhood
What is East Egg?
Revelation about Gatsby's past in the novel.
What is that his name is James Gatz and his family are poor farmers from North Dakota?
Individuals that meet the IRS' guidelines for income, age, and filing status are required to:
What is file a return?
An appeal to authority or credibility (expert witness)
What is ethos
New money, Nouveau Riche (New Rich) neighborhood.
What is West Egg?
Revelation by Jordan about Daisy and Gatsby.
What is they met 5 years earlier at a party at her parents' house and fell in love, and then were separated by the war?
Purpose of the W2 form.
What is to summarize earnings and taxes already withheld?
“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.”
What is Pathos
Name the 5 main plot points of the novel.
What is Gatsby's Parties, Daisy & Gatsby's reunion, confrontation at the Plaza Hotel, Myrtle's death, and Gatsby's death.
Person driving the car that killed Myrtle Wilson.
Who is Daisy?
Payment plan.
What is an arrangement that can be made with the IRS if a person doesn't have enough money to pay their taxes?
“Nothing but independence can keep the peace of the continent… Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”
What is ethos
What is Nick implying about both specific individuals and the morals/values of the era? “They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
What is the entitlement of the Old Money class and relaxed morals of the 1920's?
Symbolism of the green light.
What are hopes, dreams, and the future?
Amount subtracted from your income that reduces your income subject to tax.
What is the standard deduction?