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The Great Gatsby - plot 1
The Great Gatsby - plot 2
The Things They Carried plot 1
The Things They Carried plot 2
Lit Devices
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The narrator of The Great Gatsby
Who is Nick Carraway?
100
The "egg" Nick lives in.
What is the West Egg?
100
Jimmy Cross' rank.
What is Lieutenant?
100
Two symbols, items carried by Dobbins and Cross, which symbolize protection and the hope they soldiers will return home safely.
What are Dobbins' girlfriend's pantyhose and Cross' letters from Martha?
100
This is the most prominent theme of The Great Gatsby.
What is the American Dream?
200
This quality is emphasized to Nick by his father as being most important.
What is honesty?
200
Tom breaks this at the apartment he shares with Myrtle in New York.
What is Myrtle's nose?
200
This is where Cross and Martha meet again after the war.
What is a college reunion?
200
This is the one medal Bowker did not win.
What is the Silver Star?
200
The symbolic interpretation of both the eyes of T.J. Eckelberg and Elroy Berdahl.
Who is God?
300
Tom played this sport in college, bringing the means to do so with him to East Egg later.
What is polo?
300
This is the kind of business that George Wilson runs.
What is a gas station?
300
He tells the story of "The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong."
Who is Rat Kiley?
300
O'Brien's daughter, who accompanies him to Vietnam when he returns.
Who is Kathleen?
300
O'Brien uses this literary device to illustrate the realities of war.
What is surrealism?
400
Gatsby claims to have attended this university.
What is Oxford?
400
This feature of Gatsby's most impresses Nick.
What is Gatsby's smile?
400
He runs the Tip Top Lodge.
Who is Elroy Berdahl?
400
His tour in Vietnam ends when he shoots himself in the foot.
Who is Rat Kiley?
400
This theme links together the chapters of O'Brien's novel.
What is truth?
500
Nick claims that people at these events behave like those at an amusement park.
What are Gatsby's parties?
500
This is how Gatsby introduces Wolfsheim.
What is a gambler?
500
The average age of Alpha Company.
What is 19 to 20 years old?
500
This is the life O'Brien is truly trying to save by telling his stories.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
500
Fitzgerald uses this extensively while O'Brien only uses it in certain selections.
What is figurative language?