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Jay Gatsby
Nick
Lit. Terms
100
What is Jay Gatsby's last name?
James Gatz
100
What is the name of the gangster Gatsby is associated with?
Meyer Wolfsheim
100
What is the name of the Midwestern town Gatsby claims to be from?
San Francisco
100
What is Nick's last name?
Carraway
100
A thing is referred to but is not immediately visible.
What is Allusion?
200
What is Tom and Daisy's last name?
Buchanan
200
What is the name of the man who owns the garage and is married to Myrtle?
George B. Wilson
200
How does Gatsby claim to have earned his money?
Owning drug stores
200
What is the line of work that Nick has come East to learn?
Bonds
200
When hints or clues as to the future are given by the author.
What is foreshadowing?
300
What is Tom's mistress' name?
Myrtle Wilson
300
Whose God-like eyes watch over the Valley of Ashes?
Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
300
What is the name of the college that James Gatz first went to?
St. Olaf
300
What is the profession in which Nick's family made its money?
Wholesale Hardware business
300
A comparison of two seemingly unlike things
What is a metaphor?
400
What is Jordan's last name?
Baker
400
Who got all of the inheritance money Gatsby though he was going to get?
Ella Kaye
400
Gatsby's medal is from?
Montenegro
400
What is the one thing Nick claims to reserve?
Judgements
400
Attributing humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
500
What is the name of the man who was killed at the Metropole?
Rosy Rosenthal
500
What is the name of "the boarder"?
Ewing Klipspringer
500
Who did Gatsby have a "relationship" with?
Daisy
500
What is Nick's "cardinal virtue"?
honesty
500
Wilson feels physically ill because of his guilt. This is an example of what literary term?
Irony