Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. (fitzgerald 159) this is personification. It says the clouds scurried around. He is giving the clouds human abilities. -kenneth hill
...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees. (Fitzgerald 161) Similie: He is comparing Wilson coming towards him with the gun to a ghost driting about.
"..at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his soulders" (Fitzgerald 149) Metaphorr He is saying that Gatsby's false identity is like an invisible cloak that could be removed at any moment.
"I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint, and incestant, from his garden..." (Fitzgerald 179) Imagery
He is describing how he remembers Gatsby's summer time parties. David
"..at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his soulders" (Fitzgerald 149) Metaphorr Say Gatsby Fake ID. is like an invisable cloak Kyle
"Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over." (Fitzgerald pg.87) He is saying that gatsbys flirtation is over. Hunter Smith
"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction" (Fitzgerald 176) descriptive imagery. He is saying whenever he is in the east it seems Gatsby's memory follows him. Ben Dibble
"small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind". (fitzgerald 159) Personification because it shows how the clouds moved around and giving it a human emotion.
"at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his soulders"-{chapter 8}Metaphor: It's saying that gatsby is not the person he wants to be, like he took on a false idenity and his real idenity is being revealed.
"I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground" -{Chapter 9}. Imagery: it's desribe how the ground looked and sounded as their feet touched it.
the touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a transit.....(fitzgerald 162)- simile
A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool(Fitzgerald 163)- descriptive imagery
"I can't describe to you how suprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport." (Fitzgerald 150). This is a epigram. He saying that he was suprised to find the person he loved once more.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (Fitzgerald 180). This is a epigram. What this is saying is that as life goes on we often don't worry about the past (I think?).
"...at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders" (Fitzgerald 149-Metaphor: Meaning, at any time, the "Great Gatsby" shtick can be revealed.
"It was Gatsby's father. A solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day." (Fitzgerald 167) -Descriptive Imagery
"a fog horn was groaning incessantly on the sound." Personification-fog horns can't groan.
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DeleteThank you very much!
Delete"and felt over innumberable feet of dark wall..." This is personification. Walls do not have feet.
ReplyDelete(Fitzgerald 147)
DeleteThis is not figurative language. It means feet in length...
DeleteIt's more like a syntax passage or symbolism for Gatsby's empty and dark house
Delete"the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine"
ReplyDeletesimile- comparing Nicks grass to Gatsby's grass.
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DeleteWilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. (fitzgerald 159)
ReplyDeletethis is personification. It says the clouds scurried around. He is giving the clouds human abilities.
-kenneth hill
...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees. (Fitzgerald 161)
ReplyDeleteSimilie: He is comparing Wilson coming towards him with the gun to a ghost driting about.
"..at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his soulders" (Fitzgerald 149) Metaphorr
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that Gatsby's false identity is like an invisible cloak that could be removed at any moment.
"I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint, and incestant, from his garden..." (Fitzgerald 179) Imagery
He is describing how he remembers Gatsby's summer time parties.
David
Grass on his lawn has grown twice as long as mine has.
ReplyDeleteFitzgerald is comparing two yards to eachother.
When I say he's in Chicago, he's in Chicago
ReplyDelete"..at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his soulders" (Fitzgerald 149) Metaphorr Say Gatsby Fake ID. is like an invisable cloak
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"Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over." (Fitzgerald pg.87) He is saying that gatsbys flirtation is over.
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"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction" (Fitzgerald 176) descriptive imagery. He is saying whenever he is in the east it seems Gatsby's memory follows him.
ReplyDeleteBen Dibble
"I couldn't sleep all night: a fog horn was groaning incessantly o the sound..."
ReplyDeletepersonification (8)
"...I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground"
imagery (9)
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A fog horn was groaning- personification
ReplyDelete"small gray clouds took on fantastic shapes and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind". (fitzgerald 159) Personification because it shows how the clouds moved around and giving it a human emotion.
ReplyDelete"at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his soulders"-{chapter 8}Metaphor: It's saying that gatsby is not the person he wants to be, like he took on a false idenity and his real idenity is being revealed.
ReplyDelete"I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground" -{Chapter 9}. Imagery: it's desribe how the ground looked and sounded as their feet touched it.
the touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a transit.....(fitzgerald 162)- simile
ReplyDeleteA rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool(Fitzgerald 163)- descriptive imagery
The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
ReplyDeleteGhostly birds meaning not seen because of the dew, only heard. (8)
"Nevertheless you did throw me over," said Jordan suddenly.
Throw me over is expressing that he just ignored her. (9)
"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction" (Fitzgerald 176)
ReplyDeleteDescriptive Imagery: Nick is saying that the East coast had to many memories, and that anything could trigger them.
When i left his office the sky had turned dark and i got baxk to east egg in a drizzle.
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what is he saying by that?
Delete"All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beagle Street Blues"
ReplyDeletePersonification: Saying that the saxophones were giving the voice of blues.
"Nevertheless you did throw me over"
Saying the he just ignored her.
"I can't describe to you how suprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport." (Fitzgerald 150). This is a epigram. He saying that he was suprised to find the person he loved once more.
ReplyDelete"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (Fitzgerald 180). This is a epigram. What this is saying is that as life goes on we often don't worry about the past (I think?).
"...at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders" (Fitzgerald 149-Metaphor: Meaning, at any time, the "Great Gatsby" shtick can be revealed.
ReplyDelete"It was Gatsby's father. A solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day." (Fitzgerald 167) -Descriptive Imagery
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Delete“But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.”
ReplyDelete“She was dressed to play golf and I remember thinking she looked like a good illustration”
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