The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway lives in this Long Island neighborhood, which he describes as being for the "nouveau riche."
What is West Egg?
This is the name of the DuBois family’s ancestral home, which translates to "Beautiful Dream."
What is Belle Reve?
This literary period (1850–1900) focused on real-life situations and the details of social class, particularly for the middle and lower classes.
What is Realism?
Daisy says she hopes her daughter will be a "beautiful little fool." This contains the repetition of "oo" sounds, an example of this device.
What is assonance?
Identify if this sentence is Active or Passive: "The house was built by James."
What is Passive Voice?
This man is described by Gatsby as a gambler who "fixed the World Series back in 1919."
This is the name of the New Orleans neighborhood where the Kowalskis live; in Greek mythology, it is the final resting place for heroes.
What is Elysian Fields?
This movement (1836–1850) focused on the idea that true reality involves intuition rather than just the physical senses.
What is Transcendentalism?
Identify the device used here: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
What is alliteration?
Rewrite this passive sentence in the active voice: Figurative language is frequently used by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald frequently uses figurative language.
According to Gatsby, this specific characteristic of Daisy’s "is full of money."
What is her voice?
In the opening stage directions, Blanche’s "uncertain manner" and "delicate beauty" lead her to be compared to this insect.
What is a moth?
This massive demographic shift involved over 1.5 million Black Americans moving to Northern cities like New York and Chicago.
What was the Great Migration?
Nick uses this device when he refers to Yale University by the name of the city it is located in: "I graduated from New Haven in 1915."
What is metonymy?
Choose the correct pronoun: "Neither Bill nor Sal had (his/their) assignment ready."
What is "his"? (Singular antecedents joined by nor take a singular pronoun).
Jay Gatsby was not born into wealth; his original name was this, and he grew up in North Dakota.
Who is James Gatz?
During Blanche’s famous speech in Scene 4, she refers to Stanley as being a "survivor of" this specific historical era.
What is the Stone Age?
Realists believed that this element of a story was more important than plot development.
What is character development?
Nick describes the communication between him and his father as being "unusually communicative in a reserved way," a contradiction that is somehow true.
What is a paradox?
Correct this misplaced modifier: "The midshipman boarded the aircraft carrier with short hair."
What is "The midshipman with short hair boarded the aircraft carrier"?
In Chapter 9, Nick uses this specific phrase to describe Tom and Daisy, noting that they "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money."
What are "careless people"?
Stanley frequently mentions this set of laws to justify his interest in his wife’s inheritance.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This famous American writer led a group of thinkers in Massachusetts known as "The Transcendental Club."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
In Scene 4 of Streetcar, Blanche uses this device when describing the poker players: "Swilling and gnawing and hulking!"
What is polysyndeton?
Which of these is a correct use of a plural pronoun with a compound antecedent?
A) Neither Sarah nor Mary will talk to their brother.
B) Either the police officers or the witness should give their testimony.
C) Mike’s brother and sister brought his dog to the park.
B) Either the police officers or the witness should give their testimony.
(If any part of a compound antecedent joined by or is plural, use a plural pronoun).