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Common Lit Terms (Apply them to the quotes)
#1 '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.' Paradox
#2 'I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red an dgold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.' Allusion(s)
#3 'I had the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.' Symbol(ism)
#4 'But . . .you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg . . .from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles.' Symbol(ism)/Imagery
#5 'And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.' Irony (possibly paradox, as what she says is an oxymoron and directly contradicts itself)
You Don't Know Nick
#1 What is Nick's profession? Bondman
#2 Nick attended this college, the same as Tom Buchanan. New Haven
#3 True or False: Nick has been drunk many times in his life, and once was when he went to a New York City apartment with Tom and Myrtle. False: Nick has only been drunk once or twice in his life.
#4 What is Nick Carraway's middle name? I don't know either.
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Who said it?
#1 'Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' Mr. Carraway (Nick's father)
#2 'The idea is if we don't look out the white reace will be - will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.' Tom Buchanan
#3 'I'm p-paralyzed with happiness.' Daisy Buchanan
#4 'What I say is, why go on living with them if they can't stand them?' Catherine
#5 'I married him because I thought he was a gentleman . . . but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.' Myrtle
Settings (connect the quote with the setting described)
#1 “…a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke, and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” The Valley of Ashes
#2 'The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtainsin at one end and out the other like pale flags . . .' Tom and Daisy's House
#3 “The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles….Several copies of Town Tattle lay on the table…” Tom and Myrtle's New York Apartment
#4 'A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure . . .who stood on the porch.' Gatsby's Mansion
#5 “The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.” Wilson's Garage/Car Shop
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Final Question
In what year did Nick graduate from New Haven? 1915