As a Romantic author, Fitzgerald uses amazing imagery, similes, metaphors, etc. Post a comment that leaves a direct quote from the novel that you liked. Tell us what type of figurative language the quote is and what the quote is saying.
What to look for:
* symbolism
* descriptive imagery
* metaphors
* similes
* personification
* epigram
This is required for every chapter we read.
"Reserving judgments is a matter of eternal hope" (Fitzgerald 6). Epigram. Describes the internal hope that Nick carries - he always seeks to find the best in people before judging them.
ReplyDeleteKyle- "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone just rememberthat all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." (Fitzgerald 1)Epigram.Describes that everyone in this world isnt as a fortunant as u may be so you shouldnt critisize others.
ReplyDeleteI hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
ReplyDeleteSaying that women don't have any intelligence, they are only fools with good looks, ( very untrue)
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DeleteI believe that Daisy hopes her daughter will be a fool because ignorance is bliss. Being a beautiful fool would mean that every man would want her, which is a disire of Daisy's. She also wouldn’t have to feel the pain of realizing and being able to comprehend the evil and corruption that society falls into.
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ReplyDelete"Im p-parlyed with happiness." (Fitzgerald 8)metaphor? Daisy is exagerating her happiness. she is saying she is extremely happy.
ReplyDelete-kenneth hill
Hyperbole. Which is an over exaggeration and dramtic people know they aren't serious
DeleteInvoluntarily I glanced seaward-and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock (Fitzgerald 21). I think this is symbolizing Mr. Gatsby's hopes and dreams or what he is looking forward to in the future.
ReplyDeleteI had no sight into Daisy's heart(Fitzgerald6). Means that he can tell how she feels.
ReplyDelete"They are not perfect ovals-like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end...." (Fitzgerald 5). Simile. He is comparing the shape of the island to that of an egg.
ReplyDelete"And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guid, a pathfinder, an original settler." This is a metaphore showing his pride as to haveing more knowledge compared to another man he just met.
ReplyDelete-Anthony Bristow
"and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. (Fitzgerald9)This is using descriptive imagery. He is describing how ms.baker strangely hold her chin a certain way.
ReplyDelete"The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door..." This is personification, a lawn does not run.
ReplyDelete"Whenever you feel like critcizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." Describes that you should not critize becuase that person may not be as fortunate as you so you should critize. Just be thankful that you had advantages in your life.
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JUSTIN SAYS: "the well-rounded man" (Fitzgerald 4) Discriptive imagery.
ReplyDelete"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as the things grow in fast movies, I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."(Fitzgerald 4) This could be symbolism and/or descriptive imagery. He is talking about just like how trees get new leaves or the sun shining he had the feeling that his life was starting again with the summer.
ReplyDelete"The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon." (Fitzgerald 8)
ReplyDeleteThis quote uses a simile to compare the women to balloons due to the wind flowing through the room and appearing to lift them up.
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personification
ReplyDelete"Then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret"(Fitzgerald 14)
Regreat and deserting are human qualities
Emily Smith
"I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a rose - of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn't He?" She turned to Miss Baker for confirmation: "An absolute rose" Symbolism?
ReplyDeleteDescriptive Imagery:
ReplyDelete"Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright elyes and a bright pasionate mouth..." (Fitzgerald9)
He is describing his cousin as an unforgettable person.
David
Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way rather like Tom's and she laughed with thrilling scorn. (Fitzgerald 17) imagery you can see this
ReplyDeleteThere was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath giving air. (Fitzgerald 4). . . The air doesn't five young breath giving air.
ReplyDelete"Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as if he were moving a checker to another square." (Fitzgerald 11) -Metaphor.
ReplyDeletethis would be a simile because it uses "as" to compare unlike things.
Delete" his speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractioiusness he conveyed."
ReplyDeleteHer gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming, discontented face. - descriptive imagery.
ReplyDeleteHe had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.
ReplyDeleteThis is a deep examination of Gatsby
I never saw my great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him-with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in father's office.
ReplyDelete"Im parlyzed with happiness".(Fitzgerald 8). this is a metaphor. She's just expressing how happy she is.
ReplyDelete"How do you get to West Egg village?" He asked helplessly. I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer.
ReplyDeleteShe is saying that now she has found what she can do to not feel lonely anymore.
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Delete"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."(Fitzgerald 1). This is epigram. What this is saying is that when you feel like judging or putting someone down because they do not have the things you do. Remember everyone didn't get the chances you've had
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