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100
In the Great Gatsby, who's point of view is the book written in
What is Nick Carraway
100
In the Great Gatsby, what is the setting (time)
What is the summer of 1922
100
In the Great Gatsby examples of this include T.S. Eliot and King Midas
What is allusion
100
What is the attitude that Nick Carraway is exposed to when Tom takes him, Myrtle, and Myrtle's friend to the apartment to party and to cheat on Daisy.
What is disdainful
100
When Owl Eyes’s comments about the theatricality of Gatsby’s life is an example of ....
What is foreshadowing
200
In the Great Gatsby, the protagonist is
Who is Jay Gatsby
200
When Gatsby throws his lavish parties and goes to an arrangement of a meeting with Daisy at Nick’s, this is considered being the...
What is rising action
200
...country of wide lawns and friendly trees'
What is imagery
200
What was the mood when Nick Carraway first walks into one of Gatsby's parties?
What is rapturous
200
The connection between geographical location and social values
What is a motif
300
In the Great Gatsby, Tom is the ___ for Gatsby
What is antagonist
300
The confrontation of Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza Hotel is the ___ of the story
What is climax
300
Hardly anyone had attended Gatsby's funeral, despite everyone having been present for his parties
What is dramatic irony
300
What is the mood like when Nick Carraway is at Gatsby's funeral?
What is elegiac
300
What is an example of a theme in the Great Gatsby?
What is The decline of the American dream or the spirit of the 1920s
400
Jay Gatsby wants to win the affection of this upper-class woman
What is Daisy Buchanan
400
Daisy’s rejection of Gatsby, Myrtle’s death, Gatsby’s murder are all apart of the
What is falling action or denouement
400
Myrtle says "you can't live forever" and then dies soon after
What is verbal irony
400
What is the style of the scene when Gatsby is shot?
What is sinister
400
What type of work is the Great Gatsby
What is a novel
500
Myrtle Wilson, Tom's lover, strives throughout the novel to improve her situation but nothing ever changes. What type of character is Myrtle described as?
What is a static character?
500
Gatsby has a vast fortune in order to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, but his mysterious past stands in the way of his being accepted by her starts off as the...
What is a major conflict
500
The green light on Daisy’s dock and the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are examples of
What is a symbol
500
What is the genre of the Great Gatsby?
What is Jazz Age novel