Words, words, and more words
with intense conviction
vehemently
Who does this describe?
Our narrator who is telling us the story. He is from Minnesota and moved to NY to learn the bond business. He is nonjudgmental, trustworthy, Daisy's cousin. Lives on West Egg next to Gatsby.
Nick Carraway
What writing strategy is this?
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since…”
Flashback
What place is this describing?
A “colossal affair...with a tower on one side...a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden”.
Gatsby's mansion
Who said this?
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn”
Nick Carraway
Without interest
apathetically
What character does this describe?
"He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it..."
Jay Gatsby
What type of characterization is this? Direct or indirect?
Mrs. McKey “was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible”
Direct
What place is this describing?
The “less fashionable of the two (places)” within the “consoling proximity of millionaires”; symbolic of “new money”
West Egg
Who said this?
“Civilization’s going to pieces… I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?”
Tom Buchanan
behavior intended to be amusing
levity
What character does this describe?
“blond, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome.” His wife, Myrtle, is having an affair, although he does not know this about Myrtle’s yet.
George Wilson
What writing strategy is this?
“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… and stir up an impenetrable cloud…”
Imagery
What setting is this describing?
The place where “the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside for a quarter of a mile so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land”
The Valley of Ashes
Who said this?
“I thought you knew, old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host”
Jay Gatsby
Unable or unwilling to believe
incredulously
What character does this describe?
"She was a in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can."
What writing strategy/literary element is this an example?
When Jordan emerges from her conversation with Gatsby, she exclaims, “I’ve just heard the most amazing thing… But I swore I wouldn’t tell it and here I am tantalizing you” (57).
Foreshadowing
What setting/place is this describing?
Has a “racy, adventurous feel” with a “constant flicker of men and women and machines”
New York City
Who said this?
"And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best think a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
Daisy Buchanan
with disdain, dislike, or hatred
contemptuously
What character does this describe?
"It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
Daisy Buchanan
What writing strategy is this?
“Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square”
Simile
What is this describing?
The “less fashionable of the two (places)” within the “consoling proximity of millionaires”; symbolic of “new money”
West Egg
Who said this?
"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I will say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--"
Myrtle Wilson