That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald pg.41). Descriptive imagery, because he is saying his yard looks as of a night filled with partying and drinking. Hunter Smith
This quaility was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness(Fitzgeraid pg.64)personifacation. He is saying that he is becoming less shy.
"So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door" Descriptive imagery. He is saying his thoughts of Gatsby were getting lower and lower to the point of him thinking he just ran the house next door. Ben Dibble
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). Descriptive imagery. Meaning his yard looks like a party with alot of drinking Kyle
The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois do Boulogne. (Fitzgerald 66) This is discriptive imagery. Fitzgerald is describing how intense the stress would be as Gatsby stalked a tiger. -kenneth hill
"Who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their nose like a goat at whosoever came near." - Simily, Fitzgerald is stating that a group of snobbish people usualy gather together. -Anthony Bristow
"The clear voices of little girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass...." This is a similie because it is comparing the singing to the soft melodie of a cricket.
We passed a barrier of dark tress, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale lights, beamed down into the park. (Fitzgerald 80) Descriptive Imagery. Describing the environment and setting at the park.
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. (Fitzgerald 66) Personification: He is saying that he nodded at the words as if they were a person. -Ben Jones
I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as June in her flowered dress -- and as drunk as a monkey.
Smilie- He's saying she was really drunk and she ended up changing her mind, even though she ends up marrying the guy anyway.
"I was walking along from one place to another, half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns" imagery about his loneliness walking along, gettin almost critized. -Natalie Watts
Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Wolfsheim swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
Personification: He is saying that the sentence he was saying is something that he could actually swallow.
Somnambulatory: Walking or having the habit of while asleep.
She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow. (Fitzgerald 76)
Similie He is saying that the letter began to crumble and break apart because of the water.
A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril. (Fitzgerald 69) -Descriptive Imagery.
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). Descriptive imagery. shyam
It was a photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers loafing in an archway through which there were visible a host of spires. There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger- with a cricket bat in hand.
"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Euope- Paris, Venice, and Rome- collecting jewels, cheifly rubys, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something sad that happened to me long ago." Epigram: Describing what gatsby did.
"the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn" (Fitzgerald 41). Personification beacuse its talking about how the world has a mistress and how they twinkled hilariously on his lawn something humans would do.
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). Discriptive imagery. he's saying it looks like a lot of partying.
"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Euope- Paris, Venice, and Rome- collecting jewels, cheifly rubys, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something sad that happened to me long ago." This Epigram is saying that Gatsby was trying to make his sorrows go away with riches.
"A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms, followed by two carriages with drawn blinds, and by more cheerful carriages for friends." (Fitzgerald 68). This is a metaphor. It's comparing something.
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). He is pretty much saying that there is a lot of praying going on on a sunday morning in that town.
That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life
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On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald pg.41). Descriptive imagery, because he is saying his yard looks as of a night filled with partying and drinking.
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This quaility was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness(Fitzgeraid pg.64)personifacation. He is saying that he is becoming less shy.
ReplyDelete"So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door" Descriptive imagery. He is saying his thoughts of Gatsby were getting lower and lower to the point of him thinking he just ran the house next door.
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On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). Descriptive imagery. Meaning his yard looks like a party with alot of drinking
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The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois do Boulogne. (Fitzgerald 66) This is discriptive imagery. Fitzgerald is describing how intense the stress would be as Gatsby stalked a tiger.
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"Who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their nose like a goat at whosoever came near."
ReplyDelete- Simily, Fitzgerald is stating that a group of snobbish people usualy gather together.
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Delete"With fenders spread like wings." Simile- saying they were being pulled over by the police.
ReplyDelete"The clear voices of little girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass...." This is a similie because it is comparing the singing to the soft melodie of a cricket.
ReplyDeleteWe passed a barrier of dark tress, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale lights, beamed down into the park. (Fitzgerald 80) Descriptive Imagery. Describing the environment and setting at the park.
ReplyDeleteLittle Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. (Fitzgerald 66)
ReplyDeletePersonification: He is saying that he nodded at the words as if they were a person.
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I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as June in her flowered dress -- and as drunk as a monkey.
ReplyDeleteSmilie- He's saying she was really drunk and she ended up changing her mind, even though she ends up marrying the guy anyway.
"I was walking along from one place to another, half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns" imagery about his loneliness walking along, gettin almost critized.
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Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Wolfsheim swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
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Somnambulatory: Walking or having the habit of while asleep.
She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow. (Fitzgerald 76)
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He is saying that the letter began to crumble and break apart because of the water.
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A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril. (Fitzgerald 69)
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On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). Descriptive imagery.
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"Then he went out on the sidewalk, and they shot him three times in his full belly and drove away." Fitzgerald 70
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"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Euope- Paris, Venice, and Rome- collecting jewels, cheifly rubys, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something sad that happened to me long ago." Epigram: Describing what gatsby did.
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"the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn" (Fitzgerald 41). Personification beacuse its talking about how the world has a mistress and how they twinkled hilariously on his lawn something humans would do.
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On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). Discriptive imagery. he's saying it looks like a lot of partying.
ReplyDeleteThe description of Gatsby's car. That would be descriptive imagery. (Fitzgerald 63&64)
ReplyDeleteHe was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.
ReplyDeleteHe always came off to people as a nervous or anxious person.
"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Euope- Paris, Venice, and Rome- collecting jewels, cheifly rubys, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something sad that happened to me long ago." This Epigram is saying that Gatsby was trying to make his sorrows go away with riches.
ReplyDelete"A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms, followed by two carriages with drawn blinds, and by more cheerful carriages for friends." (Fitzgerald 68). This is a metaphor. It's comparing something.
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ReplyDeleteOn Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn (Fitzgerald 41). He is pretty much saying that there is a lot of praying going on on a sunday morning in that town.
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