World War I
The year WWI began.
What is 1914?
What is Francis Scott Fitzgerald?
The term often used to describe the 1920s due to its vibrant culture and social change.
What is the Roaring 20s?
The author of the novel.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
The event that is considered the catalyst for WWI.
What is the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The generation F. Scott Fitzgerald was a part of.
What is the Lost Generation?
The name of the famous African American cultural and artistic movement that flourished during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The location of Gatsby's mansion.
What is West Egg?
The use of contradictory words next to one another.
What is an oxymoron?
Two of the countries that made up the Allies.
The name of his wife.
Who is Zelda?
The major event that granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
The millionaire at the center of the novel.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
An exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Two of the countries that made up the Central Powers.
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
The college Fitzgerald dropped out of to join the army.
What is Princeton?
The name of the economic and cultural explosion that occurred in the 1920s (the setting for Gatsby)
What is the Jazz Age?
What is the American Dream?
The rhetorical strategy that appeals to the audiences' reasoning/logic.
What is logos?
The name of the treaty that ended WWI in 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The novel he wrote that explores themes of wealth, social class & the American Dream.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The amendment to the constitution that led to the illegal production/distribution of alcohol during the 1920s.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The year the novel is set.
What is 1922?
A brief/offhand reference to another person/place/thing/text within a text.
What is an allusion?