FLOS The Great Gatsby Literary Devices

"My own house was an eyesore."

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

"...she smiled slowly..."

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• irony

"I'm paralyzed with happiness."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• flashback

"The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door..."

• personification

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• hyperbole

"...the groan of a picture..."

• personification

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• hyperbole

"I've been drunk twice in my life and the second was that night."

• foreshadowing

• personification

• hyperbole

• irony

"Most of the time I worked. In the early morning the sun cast my shadows westward as I..."

• flashback

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

"...boom of the bass drum..."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• irony

• flashback

"I'm pretty cynical...sophisticated--God, I'm sophisticated!"

• characterization

• personification

• irony

• hyperbole

"So with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees..."

• imagery

• personification

• characterization

• metaphor