Grammar
What is a comma splice?
The genre of novel or play that blends both comic and tragic elements.
What is tragicomedy?
Nick's golfing girlfriend.
Who is Jordan Baker?
The character who has an extremely long, incomprehensible monologue when he is commanded to think.
Who is Lucky?
Dorothy's woman "friend."
Who is Estelle?
A group of words that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence but is punctuated as a complete sentence.
What is a fragment?
A story or picture in which characters, places, and/or events can be interpreted to represent other things that have moral, social, or political significance.
What is an allegory?
The country to which Brian Redfield wanted to relocate.
What is Brazil?
The last character to enter in each act of the play.
Who is the Boy?
Larry's favorite food.
What are avocados?
The categories of words (such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) that are grouped according to the kinds of ideas they express and the ways they work in sentences.
What are parts of speech?
A genre that uses humor and irony to criticize the faults of people, societies, governments, etc.
What is satire?
The object on the mantelpiece that Gatsby knocks over when he's reunited with Daisy.
What is a clock?
The first spoken line in the play.
What is "Nothing to be done"?
The body of water to which Dorothy hopes to bring Larry.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The use of similar grammatical forms for similar elements of meaning within a sentence—a practice which often makes writing clearer.
What is parallelism or parallel structure?
The post-war theatrical movement with which Waiting for Godot is associated.
What is the Theatre of the Absurd?
The dark-skinned African-American maid employed by the Redfields.
Who is Zulena?
The biblical story to which Vladimir refers in the Act I.
What is the story of the two thieves?
The board game that Dorothy and Fred play together after he confesses to her.
What is Scrabble?
The kind of conjunction that introduces a dependent clause.
What it is a subordinating conjunction?
The well-known sonnet form that consists of an octave followed by a sestet.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
The well-known white author who is friends with Irene Redfield.
Who is Hugh Wentworth?
Estragon's response when Pozzo ask what his name is.
What is Adam?
The Institute where Larry is kept captive.
What is the Jefferson Institute for Oceanographic Research?