Characters
Who is the first-person narrator of the book?
What is East Egg?
what is West Egg?
East - old money
west - new money
"with fenders spread like wings, we sped through the neighborhood"
What kind of figurative language is used here?
Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Personification, Imagery
simile - comparing driving to flying with wings
Who is secretly in love with Daisy?
Gatsby
What is the area where Gatsby and Nick speed through on their way to the city (Halfway between West Egg and New York).
The valley of ashes
"with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish"
What kind of figurative language is used here?
Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Personification, Imagery
metaphor - comparing the city to lumps of sugar
Who says, "I am one of the few honest people I have ever known"?
Nick
Why did Gatsby buy a house on the bay?
because Daisy's house is right across the water
"the red white and blue banners in front of the houses stretched out stiff and said "tut-tut-tut-tut" in a disapproving way.
What kind of figurative language is used here?
Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Personification, Imagery
onomatopoeia AND/OR personification
Fill in the blanks:
_____ is cheating on _____ with ________.
Tom, Daisy, Myrtle,
OR
Myrtle, George, Tom
Where does Gatsby say he's from?
San Fransisco / the "middle west"
"Daisy took the letter into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow."
What kind of figurative language is used here?
Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Personification, Imagery
simile - describing the torn up, wet letter to snow
Who was a bridesmaid at Daisy and Tom's wedding, and what did they see happen?
Jordan -
she saw Daisy cry because she regretted not staying with Gatsby instead.
What bridge is described as "the city seen for the first time, in its wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world."
the Queensboro bridge
"Then it had not merely been the stars to which he had wished on that June night. Gatsby came alive to me, born suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor. "
What kind of figurative language is used here?
Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Personification, Imagery
Metaphor - Nick is saying that finding out Gatsby is in love with Daisy made him understand Gatsby in a new way, and it's like Gatsby had just been born again in his mind.