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English Gatsby quiz
english Gatsby quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imagery | Descriptive language that appeals to the senses |
| symbolism | when something represents a larger idea |
| indirect characterization | character traits revealed through actions, thoughts, speech, appearance and what others say |
| setting | Time and place of the action |
| theme | central message insight or universal idea revealed by a literary work |
| tone | The writer’s/speaker’s attitude toward the subject, characters, or reader/audience. |
| mood | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work. |
| diction | A writer’s or speaker’s word choice |
| verbal irony | a word or phrase used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning. |
| situational irony | an event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the characters, reader and/or audience. |
| dramatic irony | a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows |
| person vs society conflict | a struggle between a character and societal expectations, laws or norms |
| syntax | the order and structure of sentences |
| metaphor | a comparison between 2 unlike things without the use of like/as/than |
| simile | makes a direct comparison between two subjects using like as or than |
| rhetoric | using persuasive appeal to understand, recognize and analyze the 3 major types of persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos) |
| Nick Carraway | from Midwest, Yale grad, lives in west egg, works in finance, inclined to reserve all judgements- sometimes contradicts himself,, observant/thoughtful, bridge between diff social groups |
| Tom Buchanan | racist, ignorant, aggressive, controlling, unfaithful, physically strong, dominant wealthy (old money) represents privilege and carelessness |
| Daisy Buchanan | beautiful, charming, wealthy, shallow, dresses in white- symbolizes purity/illusion. materialistic, emotionally careless, avoids conflict, lets other control situations. |
| Jay Gatsby | wealthy, mysterious, self made man, lives in west egg, reinvents himself to get daisy back, obsessed with recreating the past/achieving the american dream |
| Jordan Baker | pro golfer, confident, cynical, dishonest (rumored cheating), independent, modern, represents the carefree 1920s lifestyle. |
| George Wilson | owns a run down garage in the valley of ashes,tired, spiritless, trapped in poverty, powerless compared to Tom, naive, doesn't realize myrtles affair, symbol of struggling working class. |
| Myrtle Wilson | Tom's mistress, loud personality, lives in valley of ashes, desperate to escape her social class, pretends to be upper class in NYC, materialistic, shallow, powerless despite acting confident. |
| Mr. Mckee | photographer, at Tom/myrtle's apartment party, represents shallow NYC social scene |
| TJ Eckleburg | billboard with giant eyes/glasses, overlooking valley of ashes, symbol of watching and judgement, moral decay of society |
| Catherine | Myrtle's sister, talkative, lies easily (daisy being Catholic), represents gossip/carelessness social culture |
| Owl Eyes | man at Gatsby's party, examines books, one of few who sees Gatsby clearly, realizes Gatsby's world is partly fake, symbol of insight/awareness |
| Ewing Klipspringer | guest who freeloads at Gatsby's mansion, represents people who used Gatsby for his wealth and parties |
| Meyer Wolfsheim | Gatsby's business associate, connected to organized crime, suggests Gatsby's wealth is illegal, shady and secretive. |
| Dan Cody | wealthy to mentor to young Gatsby, yacht owner, inspired Gatsby's dream of the wealth/lifestyle he wanted, Gatsby learned from him but didn't inherit his money. |
| Mr Sloane | friend of Tom, visits Gatsby's house, snobbish, rude, looks down on Gatsby (new money) |
| Pammy | symbolizes daisy's role as a mother and the emptiness beneath the Buchanan family's "perfect" image |
| Michaelis | George Wilson's neighbor, tries to comfort and help him after myrtle's death, represents compassion and realism |
| Henry C. Gatsby | Gatsby's father, proud of Gatsby's success , shows Gatsby's childhood schedule and self improvement plans, represents Gatsby's ambition and original dresm |
| Blue | in opposition to gray represents illusion, loneliness, artificiality, often connected to Gatsby's dream and sadness |
| White | purity/innocence on the surface but also emptiness and illusion |
| Green | hope, longing, Gatsby dream, future, unreachable nature of the American dream |
| Red | violent, aggressive, hostility, volatility by tom |
| Gold | wealth, status, luxary, materialism |
| creme | artificial sophistication and fake upper class appearance. |
| yellow | surface level, not much meaning to gatsby parties, only for his self image, corruption, decay, materialism, fake wealth |
| gray | hopeless, lifeless, poverty, moral decay |
| east egg vs west eff | east- old money, traditional west- new money, self made |
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