The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1 Lit Devices and Vocab

The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a

warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and

friendly trees,

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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He found the house, a weather-beaten cardboard

bungalow at eighty a month

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a

guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tricolon

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and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new

money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets

that only Midas and

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tricolon

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The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the

front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and

brick walks and burning gardens — finally when it reached the

house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the

momentum of its run.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tricolon

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it was a factual imitation of some

Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking

new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming

pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.

• Opulence

• Derelict

• Decrepit

• Mundane

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the great

wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tricolon

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It

was a body capable of enormous leverage — a cruel body.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tricolon

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Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows

and the caught wind died out about the room,

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Tricolon

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves

growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had

that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with

the summer.

• Pessimism

• Optimism

• Cynicism

• Contempt

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