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Nick
Modernism
Quotes
Symbols Revisited
Lit Terms
100
Nick goes to New York to become this.
What is a bondsman?
100

Another Modernist text that you have read this year

What is The Crucible

100
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
Who is Jay Gatsby
100

The sightless eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg represent these four things:

Okay, at least three 1.the ambitions of a once thriving oculist. 2. the eyes of a God who is no longer present. 3. God judging the moral wasteland of American Society. 4. Gatsby's inability to see things as they really are.

100
hulking. ... hulking
What is repetition?
200

Nick "celebrates" this birthday

What is his 30th

200
Modernist artists depended primarily on
What is experimentation? "Make it new"
200

“It takes two to make an accident”

Who is Jordan Baker

200
Car crashes and drunkenness.
What is the destructive, carelessness with which people treat each other.
200
The fact that we know Tom's having an affair with Myrtle, but George doesn't and he's standing right next to the both of them asking about that car Tom was going to sell him.
What is dramatic irony.
300

Nick's experiences this character change during the novel

What is from apathetic to empathetic

300

Begins with which major world event?

World War I

300

“And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.”

Who is Nick Carraway

300
Wilson's anemic face
What is death
300

"'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'and everything's so confused... Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, molding its senselessness into forms."

What is Pathetic Fallacy

400
Nick's background accomplishes this in terms of presenting him as a narrator.
What is establishes the moral foundation by which Nick will view others, and presents him as an unbiased and reliable narrator.
400

What values, attitudes, and ideas grew from the major social and political events in the first half of the 20th century

At least 1: Disillusionment with old ideas and values Greater democratization with an expanding middle class Wider cultural awareness Fragmentation of experience

400
"God sees everything."
Who is George Wilson?
400
The Beautiful Shirts (also a great pop/punk band name of posers)
What is wealth!
400
Fitzgerald following Gatsby's kiss with Daisy at his party with the backstory of how he accomplished his will under the mentorship of Dan Cody
What is juxtaposition.
500

Literary term in this Nick quote: "I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities, and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan Maecenas knew." 

allusion

500
"Stream of conciousness" is this
What is the natural flow of thoughts, memories, and insights.
500
“I won’t be able to get away for the funeral, but will you please send my shoes?”
Who is Klipspringer
500
Wolfsheim's cuff buttons made of human molars
What is opulence through death (the man is making a fashion statement, wearing death around).
500
"two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all"
What is an oxymoron?