Literary Devices
What device is used when Gatsby’s guests “came and went like moths…”?
Simile
What nickname do we give to the energetic, carefree 1920s era?
The Roaring Twenties
At Tom’s city apartment party, what injury shows how rough he is with Myrtle?
He breaks her nose.
What color light across the bay is Gatsby always reaching for?
Green
What is the name of the gray wasteland between West Egg and New York?
The Valley of Ashes
Calling Daisy’s voice “full of money” is an example of what device?
Metaphor
From what illegal trade did Gatsby most profit?
Bootlegging / illegal liquor sales
Why does Gatsby fire all his old servants and hire new ones mid-summer?
To stop gossip about Daisy visiting.
Gatsby’s “blue gardens” and his blue clothes symbolize what feeling?
Hope
Gatsby claims to be from the Midwest and to have been educated at this university, though both are misleading.
Oxford
The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock mainly uses which device?
Symbolism
According to your slides, which once-luxury item became a mass-produced “must-have"?
The automobile
What golf-course trick first hints that Jordan Baker is willing to cheat?
She moved her ball for a better shot.
A daisy’s white petals point to Daisy’s outward image of _______.
Innocence
Who is driving Gatsby’s car when it hits Myrtle?
Daisy Buchanan
Describing the Valley of Ashes as “desolate” and “leaden” is an example of what?
Imagery
Organized-crime growth is personified by which Gatsby associate who “fixed” the 1919 World Series?
Meyer Wolfsheim
Who comes to West Egg after Gatsby dies, proving Gatsby came from a simple family?
His father, Henry Gatz.
What do Dr. T. J. Eckleburg’s eyes symbolize as they loom over the characters' actions?
The eyes of God, moral decay, or judgment
What nickname do newspapers give Gatsby’s car after the accident?
The “death car.”
Seeing Gatsby’s busy parties but knowing his loneliness is an example of what?
Situational Irony (we will take paradox, or just irony as well)
Which fictional community in The Great Gatsby is known for “new money”?
West Egg
On the night before her wedding, what does Daisy do that shows she still cares for Gatsby?
Gets drunk and cries over a letter.
Gatsby’s cream car is called yellow after the hit-and-run. The new yellow shows his growing _______.
Corruption
What event in Chapter 9 shows how few people really knew or cared about Gatsby?
His funeral.