The Great Gatsby Figurative Language

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"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

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The next day was broiling

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The Great Gatsby

• simile

• metaphor

• pun

• Alliteration

While his station wagon scampered...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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

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

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification