GG Characters
His dream is a relationship with Daisy
Who is Gatsby?
an over-exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
when the word for a sound is spelled like it sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
Gatsby's killer
Who is Mr. Wilson?
the murder weapon that killed Myrtle
What is a car?
Racist, wealthy, married to Daisy, cheating with Myrtle
Who is Tom Buchanan?
when something non-human is given human-like traits
What is personification?
a comparison between two things that does not use like or as
What is a metaphor?
Mr. Wilson's killer
the murder weapon that killed Gatsby
Young, wealthy, married to Tom, cheating with Gatsby
Who is Daisy?
a comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as
the repetition of the beginning sound of a word in multiple words near to each other
What is alliteration?
Myrtle's killer
Who is Daisy?
the people who find Gatsby's body
the narrator
a turn of phrase that has an understood meaning that does not match the literal meaning of the phrase
What is an idiom?
"the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall"
What is a simile?
the person taking the blame for Myrtle's death
Who is Gatsby?
why Gatsby's killer thought he was responsible for his killer's wife's death
Why did Tom tell the killer that Gatsby was driving the car that killed her?
Married to Myrtle, owns an auto-shop
Who is Mr. Wilson?
"a corp of caterers"
What is alliteration?
"and gave ear to two girls"
What is an idiom?
the order in which the three deaths occurred
the people who attended Gatsby's funeral
Who are Mr. Gatz (his father) and Nick?