https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r Made with whimsy en-us 2018-07-10 13:12:18 UTC 2025-05-26 13:30:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/300417972/f39e67d5a621d500d0280170361cc1ba/6777694048_bcb5fb4462.jpg mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/269842895 Definition: A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood. 
Example: "Wait a minute," snapped Tom. "I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more question."
"Go on," Gatsby said politely.
"What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?" (Fitzgerald, 131)]]> 2018-07-10 13:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/269842895 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/271279993 Definition: The different meaning of words, phrases, signs, or other symbols. 
Example: "My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season." (Fitzgerald, 5)  In this context, the word 'egg' is not reffering to an actual egg, but a structure shaped like one.]]> 2018-07-27 10:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/271279993 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/271280426 Definition: A mistaken belief based on an unsound argument.
Example: "Nowadays, people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white." (Fitzgerald, 130)]]> 2018-07-27 11:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/271280426 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272751109 Definition: A figure of speech in which an opposition or a contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are opposites of one (or strongly contrast with) one another.
Example: "Daisy looked at Tom frowning, and an indefinable expression, at once definetely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable...passed over Gatsby's face." (Fitzgerald, 121)]]> 2018-08-12 11:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272751109 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272751788 Definition: Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, and minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning.
Example: "Civilization’s going to pieces … I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.  Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard? … Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged.  It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved"  (Fitzgerald, 12) ]]> 2018-08-12 11:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272751788 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272753588 Definition: A strong verbal or written attack on someone or some thing. 
Example: "I found out what your 'drug-stores' were." He turned to us and spoke rapidly. "He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago, and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong." (Fitzgerald, 133)]]> 2018-08-12 12:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272753588 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272753906 Definition: The use of remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what they say, made in order to hurt someone's feelings or to criticize something in a humorous way.
Example: "I'll tell you a family secret," she whispered enthusiastically. "It's about the butler's nose. Do you want to hear about the butler's nose? "That's why I came over tonight." (Fitzgerald, 13)]]> 2018-08-12 13:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272753906 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272754133 Definition: A remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before.
Example: "And what's more I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart, I love her all the time." (Fitzgerald, 131) ]]> 2018-08-12 13:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272754133 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272840118 Definition: An idea or feeling a word invokes in addition to it's primary or literal meaning.
Example: "That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big, hulking physical specimen of a-" "I hate that word hulking," objected Tom crossly, "even in kidding." (Fitzgerald, 11)]]> 2018-08-13 10:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/272840118 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273059791 Definition: A statement that contradicts itself yet still seems true somehow.
Example: "I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy." (Fitzgerald, 49)]]> 2018-08-14 14:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273059791 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273063903 Definition: When two concepts, characters, or ideas are placed next to one another in order to compare and contrast them.
Example: “the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.
The younger of the two was a stranger to me. She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it — indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise — she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression — then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.” (Fitzgerald, 11]]> 2018-08-14 14:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273063903 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273460811 Definition: A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part.
Example: “Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.” (Fitzgerald, 44)

]]> 2018-08-16 12:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273460811 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273891802 Definiton: A  short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
Example: “I told you I went there,” said Gatsby.
“I heard you, but I’d like to know when.”
“It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months. That’s why I can’t really call myself an Oxford man.”
Tom glanced around to see if we mirrored his unbelief. But we were all looking at Gatsby.
“It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice,” he continued. “We could go to any of the universities in England or France.” (Fitzgerald, 129)]]> 2018-08-19 07:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273891802 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273891924 Definition: The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Example: “I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.”
(Fitzgerald, 133)  A 'bootlegger' is is the illegal business of transporting alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.  ]]> 2018-08-19 07:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273891924 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892094 Definition: Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary.
Example: “I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two" (Fitzgerald, 5]]> 2018-08-19 07:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892094 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892095 Definition: The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Example: “Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself?" "I hope I never will," she answered. "I hate careless people. That's why I like you" (Fitzgerald, 55)

]]> 2018-08-19 07:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892095 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892100 Definition: The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way.
Example: “he was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep” (Fitzgerald, 147)

]]> 2018-08-19 07:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892100 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892108 Definition: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Example: “It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.” (Fitzgerald, 64)]]> 2018-08-19 07:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273892108 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893944 Definition: The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
Example: “People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, found each other a few feet away” (Fitzgerald, 37)]]> 2018-08-19 08:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893944 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893950 Definition: A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning.
Example: “ ‘But it’s so hot…and everything is so confused’” (Fitzgerld, 118)]]> 2018-08-19 08:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893950 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893951 Definition: The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as.
Example: “ ‘Her voice is full of money’” (Fitzgerald, 120)]]> 2018-08-19 08:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893951 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893994 Definition: Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Example: “She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.” (Fitzgerald, 135)]]> 2018-08-19 08:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893994 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893995 Definition: The comparison of one thing with another using like or as.
Example: “and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor” (Fitzgerald, 150)]]> 2018-08-19 08:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273893995 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899158 Definition: The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition.
Example: “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth” (Fitzgerald, 9)]]> 2018-08-19 09:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899158 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899166 Definition: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Example: "'It's really his wife that's keeping them apart.  She's a Catholic and they don't believe in divorce.' Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie" (Fitzgerald,34)]]> 2018-08-19 10:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899166 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899182 Definition: A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event
Example: “Beauty and the Beast … Loneliness … Old Grocery Horse … Brook’n Bridge … .” (Fitzgerald, 36)]]> 2018-08-19 10:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899182 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899195 Definition: A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something.
Example: “Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” Advantages is a euphemism of having money. (Fitzgerald, 5)


]]> 2018-08-19 10:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899195 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899202 Definition: A figure of speech in which a writer raises a question, and then immediately provides an answer to that question
Example: “Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.” (Fitzgerald, 11)]]> 2018-08-19 10:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899202 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899216 Definition: The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself. 
Example: “By the way, Mr. Gatsby, I understand you’re an Oxford man.”
“Not exactly.”
“Oh, yes, I understand you went to Oxford.”
“Yes — I went there.” (Fitzgerald, 128)]]> 2018-08-19 10:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899216 mnafees219 https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899249 Definition:  The tone of a piece of literature is the speaker's or narrator's attitude towards the subject
Example: "Only the wind in the trees, which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into darkness" (Fitzgerald, 85)]]> 2018-08-19 10:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mnafees219/a3neqnt2i86r/wish/273899249