The Great Gatsby - Diction, Conventions and Figurative Language

"I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson’s mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall."

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The Valley of ashes is a farm, a garden, a dumping ground

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a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track

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You remind me of a- of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?

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Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols...

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A fantastic farm where the ashes grow like wheat.

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• Alliteration

While his station wagon scampered...

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And only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow

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The next day was broiling

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And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually.

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