Figurative Language
Figurative device that uses extreme exaggeration?
What is a Hyperbole
This neighborhood was the center of the flourishing African American arts and culture of the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
What would you call a group of cardboard houses set up in a public park or street alley?
What were the hoovervilles (shantytowns)?
The relationship between Nick and Daisy
What are cousins?
This statement is usually one sentence that tells the main point of your piece of writing-research paper, essay, etc. This statement is then "proven" throughout the paper with supporting evidence.
What is a thesis statement?
Personification
Giving human qualities to nonliving things
Many Americans used this to purchase the new inventions of the 1920s
Credit
This took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression since many people lost all of their money in it.
What is the stock market crash?
The way Gatsby makes money
Bootlegging or Making illegal alcohol
A group of lines of poetry (usually 4 or more) arranged according to a fixed plan.
What is a stanza?
The room smells as bad as dirty socks is an example of
What is a simile?
African Americans moved from the ( ) to the ( ) during and after WWI to get better ( ).
What is from the north to the south?
This President thought that by doing nothing the economy would get better because the economy goes up then down then back up.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
What does Gatsby want from Nick?
Who is Langston Hughes
America is a melting pot is an example of...?
Actor who made silent films in the 1920's (we watched this in class)
Who was Charlie Chaplin
What happened to the United States banks after the stock market crash?
What is the banks ran out of money?
Gatsby uses this short phrase to address Nick
What is Old Sport?
Original, first-hand records of past events. They come in many forms, including written works, like diaries and autobiographies, to photographs and objects.
What are primary sources?
RUFF RUFF is an example of
What is onomatopoeia?
The name for illegal bars in the 1920's
Speakeasy
The drought that caused many farmers in the great plains to have terrible harvests in the 1930's.
What is the dust bowl?
The name of the town where Gatsby and Nick live.
What is the west egg?
Where in Brooklyn does Ms. Royzen live?
What is coney island?