Who's Who
A man who might “drift on forever” in search of “the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game” (Fitzgerald 8)
Tom Buchanan
The “less fashionable” of the two eggs (Fitzgerald 5).
West Egg.
What war did the narrator, Nick Carraway, fight in?
World War I (WWI)
“Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square” (Fitzgerald 11).
Simile / Metaphor / Indirect Characterization
Name the vocabulary word:
The highest point; culmination; apex.
Apogee
Second cousin, once removed.
Daisy Buchanan
City where Nick visited Tom and Daisy.
Chicago
Nick Carraway’s job.
Bonds / The bond business.
“[T]he curtains and the rugs and the two women ballooned slowly to the floor” (Fitzgerald 8).
Metaphor / Imagery
Part of speech:
Terrestrial
Adjective
“[T]here was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away” (Fitzgerald 2)
Jay Gatsby
A home “with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool” (Fitzgerald 5).
Gatsby's Mansion
Tom Buchanan enjoys this type of animal.
Horses / ponies.
“The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether” (Fitzgerald 14).
Personification
Antonym of the word urban.
Pastoral or Rustic
Rumored to be engaged.
Nick Carraway
“A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling” (Fitzgerald 8).
Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s House.
The main subject of the book Tom is reading.
The replacement of white people.
“[D]eep summer on roadhouse roofs” (Fitzgerald 20).
Alliteration / Assonance
Name the Latin root:
"Mountain"Who is the “balancing girl”? (Fitzgerald 9).
Miss Jordan Baker
What may have been flashing at the end of a dock.
Green Light
Tom is obsessed with ethnic subgroup from Scandinavia, Finland, and/or Iceland.
Nordic people.
“I could have sworn he was trembling…When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness” (Fitzgerald 21).
Foreshadowing
Antonym for the word geocentric.
heliocentric
(Geocentricism argued that the Earth is the center of the universe where as heliocentrism argued that the sun was the center of universe.)