Gatsby Chapter 1

What literary device is the following passage: "Two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon"

• simile

• personification

• anaphora

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What 2 literary devices are used in the following passage: "[Daisy's] was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

• personification & simile

• onomatopoeia & metaphor

• parallelism & alliteration

• paradox & antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What literary device is the following passage: "Her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened — then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret..."

• paradox

• personification

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What literary device is the following passage: "[Jordan's] family is one aunt about a thousand years old."

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• situational irony

Answer explanation

They're exaggerating how old she is--she's not literally a thousand.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Nick saying that he would pretend to have a "hostile levity" is a ____ because "hostile" means aggressive/angry, while "levity" is light, airy cheerfulness, so it seems like the two concepts are conflicting & can't go together.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How would Nick characterize himself?
(Hint: think about the meaning of the word characterize)

• smart & well educated

• handsome, though poor

• non-judgmental, understanding

• selective, choosy about whom he surrounds himself with

Answer explanation

characterization is describing someone's personality, the thing that makes them who they are deep down.


It's NOT appearance or education level or socioeconomic status.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the following vocab terms to their translations
(from wk 15 Great Gatsby Old Text Translation Warm Ups)

• not looked for

• feigned

• a thing that happens

• phenomenon

• pretended

• unsought

• light cheerfulness

• levity

• around the corner

• on the horizon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Organize these facts to whether they go with West Egg or East Egg.

Groups:

(a) West Egg

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(b) East Egg

• less fashionable; tacky /trying too hard

• Daisy & Tom Buchanan live here

• more fashionable; elegant/classy

• Gatsby & Nick live here

• New money

• Old money

Why were the 1920s called "the Roaring 20s"?

• the popularity of disco music

• the prevalence of mobs / the mafia

• the strength of the economy

• the rise of silent films

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Match the 20s author to their novel(s):

• Earnest Hemmingway

• The Great Gatsby

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

• William Faulkner

• • The Sun Also Rises,

  • 
    A Farewell to Arms,

    
    For Whom The Bell Tolls

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Sound & the Fury,

  
  As I Lay Dying

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6