Figurative Language
What figurative language is this?
"An infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money."
Hyperbole
"At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden".What rhetorical device is this?
Alliteration
Reading Comprehension
What is the relationship between Myrtle and Tom?
They are having an affair
Symbolism?
"Standing behind him, michaelis saw a shock that was looking at the eyes of Doctor T.J Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night."
The doctors eyes are the eyes of god
What is this?
A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.
Isolationism
What figurative language is this?
"I had on a new plaid shirt also that blew a little in the wind, and whenever this happened the red, white, and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiffed and said tut-tut-tut-tut, in a disapproving way."
Personification
What rhetorical device?
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
alliteration
Reading Comprehension
Is Jordan an honest person?
No she is not
Symbolism?
"Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembeling fingers and set it back in place."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He wrote "This side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" to show the negative side of the period's gaiety and freedom
what figurative language is this?
"Now in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock."
Simile
What rhetorical device?
"We backed up to a gray old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller."
Allusion
Reading Comprehension
How is West Egg different from the East Egg?
East egg is old money. West egg is new money.
Symbolism?
"It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its montrous length with triumphant hat-boxes abd supper-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shield that mirrored a dozen suns.
Gatsby likes to show off
What was born in the early 1920s in New Orleans, where musicians blended instrumental ragtime and vocal blues into an exuberant new sound.
Jazz
What figurative language is this?
"An infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money."
Hyperbole
What rhetorical device?
"And I like large parties. They're so intimate."
paradox
Feign?
Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.
Symbolism?
"I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a rose, an absolute rose."
a rose is the opposite of delicate
What amendment put prohibition into effect?
18th Amendment
What figurative language is this?
"Our eyes lifted over the rose-beds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog-days alongshore.
Imagery
What rhetorical device?
"And a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War"
metonymy
Vocabulary
Formidable?
Causing fear or awe.
Symbolism?
"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God."
This symbolizes his love for Daisy and that he is trying to get money to marry her.
What was prohibition?
Made it illegal to make, sell, or transport liquor.