married F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920; an active socialite and artist in her own right, Zelda often felt overshadowed by her husband and suffered from nervous breakdowns, frequently necessitating extensive hospitalizations. She is widely understood to be an inspiration for many of Fitzgerald’s most famous women characters, including Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Who is she?

a controversial but popular activist who campaigned in support of women’s reproductive autonomy and wider access to birth control and abortion;

An expression whose intended meaning is the opposite of what is said or written; includes verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.

A versatile vaudeville singer, in 1920 Smith became the first African-American to make a vocal blues recording.

− a literary concept first developed by Wayne Booth in his book The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961); refers to a narrator whose judgments or perceptions either cannot be fully trusted or are not fully endorsed by the author;

The most popular jazz trumpeter of the time period, who toured extensively and helped popularize jazz music, particularly jazz inspired by the hybrid sounds of New Orleans, Louisiana.

a poem consisting of fourteen lines, usually focused on the contemplation of a single subject or idea; there are several types of sonnets, each with varying rhyme schemes,

A slang term used by F. Scott Fitzgerald to refer to his gradual mental and physical decline due to poor health and alcoholism.

Writers and artists who expatriated to Paris during and after World War I, escaping American societal restrictions; included the 'Lost Generation.'

A poet, critic, and educator associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he criticized the movement for centering urban life and aligned himself with the New Negro Movement.

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning the manufacture, distribution, and sale of most forms of alcohol; ratified in 1920 and repealed in 1933.

A Harlem Renaissance poet praised and criticized for his 'genteel' poetic style; married Nina Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W. E. B. Du Bois.

President of the United States from 1923 to 1929; vice president under Harding from 1921–23.

An artistic movement of Black creatives in Harlem during the 1920s, achieving unprecedented success and exposure.

A modernist poet famous for his work The Bridge (1930) and his interest in bohemian lifestyles.

the substitution of an attribute or aspect of a thing for the thing itself, as in “The Crown” in reference to the British monarchy

a sonnet form popularized by the fourteenth-century Italian poet; it features an octet (in the form of ABBA ABBA) followed by a sestet (usually CDC CDC, but sometimes CDE CDE); the shift between the octet and sestet usually involves a turn or change of thinking or focus, referred to as a “volta.”

an 1848 convention held in Seneca Falls, New York; widely regarded as the first convention in the United States dedicated to women’s rights

A symbol in The Great Gatsby representing Gatsby's ultimate desire, Daisy.