"...but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before." (Fitzgerald 104) Descriptive imagery. He is saying that he could sense something was different in the atmosphere of the room. -Ben Dibble
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (fitzgerald pg.73) He almost remembers a phrase but then it disappears as if it was never there. Hunter Smith
Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod, and they trotted quickely down the drive...(fitzgerald 103) Discriptive imagery. The book is expressing how swift and quick the group of people left wlking down the driveway -kenneth hill
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (Fitzgerald 111)
Imagery He is describing how it feels to have something on the tip of your tounge that you can't remember. David
Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, that rouged ans powdered in an invisible glass.
For over a year he has been beating his way along the south shore of Lake superior as a calm-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.
This is saying that he is not all about materials.
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (Fitzgerald pg.111)
Descriptive Imagery: This is showing that he had a word on the tip of his tongue that he could not remember.
Your place looks like the World's Fair
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Metaphor
ACTUALLY its a simile because it uses like so
DeleteACTUALLY that quote is from chapter five too...
Delete"Tom's arrogant eyes roamed the crowd." (Page 104)
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-Natalie Watts-
The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive.(pg 108) Personifacation
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It was dark here in front; only the bright door sent ten feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.(Fitzgerald 107) Descriptive Imagery
ReplyDelete"...but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before." (Fitzgerald 104) Descriptive imagery. He is saying that he could sense something was different in the atmosphere of the room.
ReplyDelete-Ben Dibble
repeat the past- go back to the past and do it again.
ReplyDeleteFor a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (fitzgerald pg.73) He almost remembers a phrase but then it disappears as if it was never there.
ReplyDeleteHunter Smith
same
Delete"But his heart was in a constant, turbulant riot."
ReplyDeletePersonification- hearts can't actualy riot.
ANTHONY BRISTOW
A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain... (Fitzgerald 99)
ReplyDeleteMetaphor: He is comparing Gatsby's brain to a clock
-Ben Jones
Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod, and they trotted quickely down the drive...(fitzgerald 103) Discriptive imagery. The book is expressing how swift and quick the group of people left wlking down the driveway
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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. (Fitzgerald 99).
ReplyDeletePersonification: your heart cant really have a riot.
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (Fitzgerald 111)
ReplyDeleteImagery
He is describing how it feels to have something on the tip of your tounge that you can't remember.
David
"Tom's arrogant eyes roamed the crowd" This is personification because he is giving Tom's eyes a human trait.
ReplyDeletehis heart was in a constant, turbulant riot. A heart can't really be in a turbulent riot.
ReplyDelete"A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand..." Fitzgerald, 99.
ReplyDelete-Descriptive imagery.
only the hot whistles of the national biscuit company broke the simmering hush at noon
ReplyDeletea train cant really stop the heat
Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, that rouged ans powdered in an invisible glass.
ReplyDeleteImagery and personifictaion
For over a year he has been beating his way along the south shore of Lake superior as a calm-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.
ReplyDeleteThis is saying that he is not all about materials.
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. (Fitzgerald pg.111)
ReplyDeleteDescriptive Imagery: This is showing that he had a word on the tip of his tongue that he could not remember.
.. When i had reached a point of believing everything and nothing about him.
ReplyDeleteHe didnt know what was true and what was fake.
"They were a party of three on horseback." (Fitzgerald 101). This is a metaphor. It's saying that the people are a party.
ReplyDeleteyour place looks like the world's fair. its a metaphor telling what gatsbys house looks like.
ReplyDelete~stephanie watson~
ITS A SIMILE PEOPLE GOD
Deleteand from chap 5
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