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Dinner at Gatsby’s
Directions: Each meal is worth a certain amount of points. Read what needs to be
completed for each meal and do your best to complete it! Refer back to The Great
Gatsby and your literary elements charts for help. Each $ you earn will earn you points
toward your final grade! ($1 = 1 point) If you need help at any point, call me, your
waiter, over.
~Appetizers~
(Worth $5)
Directions: Match the literary device with its correct
definition. Each appetizer you complete is worth $1.
__________internal conflict a. a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
__________paradox b. a seemingly absurd or self-
contradictory
statement or proposition that
when investigated
or explained may prove to be
well founded or true
__________personification c. a problem that occurs when the main
character
struggles within himself or
herself. The character
is pulled by two courses of action
or by differing
emotions.
__________pathos d. a phrase (2 words) in which apparently
contradictory terms appear in
conjunction
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__________oxymoron e. a type of figurative language in which
nonhuman
things are given human
characteristics
~Main Course~
(Worth $15)
Directions: Match the following quotations with their
appropriate literary device ($1 each). Then, briefly explain
why the quotation is an example of the literary device ($2
each).
1. On page 49, Jordan Baker says: “And I like large parties. They’re so
intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
Literary Device: _______________________
Explanation:_________________________________________________
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2. Jordan reveals the night before Daisy’s wedding, Daisy tells Jordan to
go downstairs and “Tell ‘em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s
change’ her mind!’” (Fitzgerald, 76).
Literary Device: _______________________
Explanation:_________________________________________________
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3. “Roaring noon. In a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar I met Gatsby
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for lunch” (Fitzgerald, 69).
Literary Device: _______________________
Explanation:_________________________________________________
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4. A succulent hash arrived, and Mr. Wolfsheim, forgetting the more
sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious
delicacy” (Fitzgerald, 71).
Literary Device: _______________________
Explanation:_________________________________________________
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5. “For a moment I suspected that he was pulling my leg, but a glance at
him convinced me otherwise” (Fitzgerald, 65).
Literary Device: _______________________
Explanation:_________________________________________________
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~Dessert~
(Worth
$6)
Directions: Choose 3 of the literary devices and write
your own example ($1 each)! Then, draw a picture to
accompany your example ($1 each).
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