TEWWG Easy Def
A scene that interrupts the action of a story?
What is a Flashback
A Comparison of objects or ideas that appears to be different but are alike in some important way?
What is an Analogy
What is a contrast or discrepancy between what the reader would expect and what actually happens?
What is situational Irony
The green light _____ the American dream of Gatsby.
What is Symbolizes
Fire in the glass castle is a ______ because it is recurring emphasizing mom and dads carelessness
What is Motif
Comparison using “like” or “as”
what is a simile
Way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people
What is Dialect
An often repeated pattern or theme in literature
What is Motif
"The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grapefruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt "(Hurston). This an example of ______
What is direct characterization
In the "Great Gatsby" the reader expects Gatsby to have a happy ending since he is this rich handsome guy but at the end he dies and nobody attends his funeral, not even the women he loved the most. This is an example of ______
Comparison between two unlike things
What is a Metaphor
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will later
What is foreshadowing
The information the reader learns about the character based on indirect information
What is indirect characterization
The eyes of doctor Eckleberg looking over the whole city is an example of _______
What is personification
East egg and West egg are ____ of each other although it seems they are different.
What is Analogy
Giving an animal /object human characteristics
What is personification
When the author directly tells the reader directly what the character is like
What is direct characterization
An act or instance of placing two thing close together or side to side, especially for comparison or contrast
What is juxtaposition
Gatsby was on thin ice when Tom spilled his shady practices to Daisy. This is an example of ______.
What is an idiom
TEEWG has a different type of ____ because it makes it more true to the region and culture of where it is hosted in Eatonville Florida but it can make the reader confused because it is not the norm of speaking.
What is Dialect
Something which stands for or represents something else
What is symbol
A common word or phrase which means something different from its literal meaning - particular to a group or people or to district, community or class
What is a idiom
Bonus question: Define abdicate
to relinquish (something, such as sovereign power) formally
In the beginning of the "Glass castle" it ______ to give an idea of what is to come and then _______ back to when she is 3 years old.
What is Foreshadows, and What is Flashback
In the "Great Gatsby" Tom Buchanan shows _______ in the choice of women he has. Daisy is perfect with a serene voice, eager, out of the rich side of society, and Myrtle is described unhappy, on the poor side of society, and having a noisy annoying voice.
What is juxtapostion