Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. (Fitzgerald 115) Simile: He is comparing Daisy and Jordan to silver idols using the word like.
There is no confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (Fitzgerald 125) Descriptive imagery- this is expressing how Tom was feeling. He was under a lot of pressure and started to panic -kenneth hill
There is no confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (Fitzgerald 125)Descriptive imagery showing how tom was feeling Kyle
“So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes” (Fitzgerald 114) Simile. The whole situation had fallen in on its self and stopped because Daisy didn’t like it. Ben Dibble
"Our eyes lifted over the rose-beds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog-days alongshore." (Fitzgerald 118) Imagery He is describing what they see when they look out across the sea to the other Egg. David
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What literaly device or figurative language is in this quote? "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before." Please help
"The next day was broiling"
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DeleteSlowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. (Fitzgerald pg.77)
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Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. (Fitzgerald 115)
ReplyDeleteSimile: He is comparing Daisy and Jordan to silver idols using the word like.
There is no confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (Fitzgerald 125)
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Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, molding its senselessness into forms.
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weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans. Fitzgerald 115
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There is no confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (Fitzgerald 125)Descriptive imagery showing how tom was feeling
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Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky.
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"Her voice is full of money."
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"Our eyes lifted over the rose-beds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog-days alongshore." (Fitzgerald 118)
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He is describing what they see when they look out across the sea to the other Egg.
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Are they looking at East or West Egg?
Delete"Her voice is full of money."- Metaphor: it just saying house well her voice sounded.
ReplyDeleteThe next day was broiling, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
ReplyDeleteUsing the word broiling is saying that day was extremly hot.
"slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky."
ReplyDeletePersonification: Boats do not have wings (under normal circumstances).
I must have felt pretty weird by that time, because i could think of nothing but the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.
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"We were silent. The voice in the hall rose high with annoyance." (Fitzgerald 116). This is descriptive imagery. it's discribing the quiteness.
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"my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs..." its a simile
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ReplyDelete"Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before."
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