Gatsby Yearly

Question 1

Great Gatsby is set in the Roaring Twenties. How does this affect his writing?

Answer 1

The characters reflect the concept of love having an attachment to money/wealth. Highlight the extravagance of the setting.

Question 2

Describe the language used in Gatsby

Answer 2

• Highly detailed
• Very figurative
• Personification
• Accumulation in sentences
• long complex sentences
• Subtle foreshadowing

Question 3

What is abstract realism?

Answer 3

Frequent personification and exaggeration.
- vivid visualisation

Question 4

Quote that shows accumulation

Answer 4

“…a whole pitiful of oboes and trombones and
saxophones and…”

Question 5

Quote that shows long complex sentences

Answer 5

“The tears coursed down her cheeks – not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her
heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky colour, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black
rivulets”