The Great Gatsby Figurative Language

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"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."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personificaiton

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The next day was broiling

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The Great Gatsby

• simile

• metaphor

• pun

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

While his station wagon scampered...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Reading The Great Gatsby was like trying to run through mud.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3