Gatsby - Chapter 2 - figurative language and symbols

...so as to shrink away from a certain desolate

area of land.

• metaphor

• simile

• paradox

• alliteration

This is a valley of ashes

• hyperbole

• symbolism

• paradox

• alliteration

a fantastic farm (there are two answers)

• metaphor

• symbolism

• paradox

• alliteration

...where

ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and...

• metaphor

• simile

• paradox

• alliteration

...where

ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and and grotesque gardens... (there are four)

• metaphor

• simile

• antithesis

• alliteration

• paradox

...where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and

rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men

who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery

air. (what type of imagery is predominantly used here? - pick two)

• sight imagery

• tactile imagery

• olfactory imagery

• aural imagery

Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible

track (choose 3)

• alliteration

• personification

• paradox

• hyperbole

...gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately

the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir

up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations

from your sight. (what's actually going on here?)

• garage workers working on cars

• construction workers working on buildings

• sanitation workers hauling garbage

But above the gray land and the spasms

of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a

moment (what connotation does 'spasms' give to the overall perspective of the valley?)

• rich

• weak

• sickly

• feeble

But above the gray land and the spasms

of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a

moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.

(What writing perspective is being used here?)

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 4D Chess