Literary Devices in Paradox Chapter 1

He didn't say any more, but we've always been communicative in a reserved way.

Then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

No--- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elation of men.

<p>The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Midas- everything he touched turned to gold. Morgan- U.S. financier, wanting to work with bonds. Maecenas- a byword for wealth, generous, enlightened patron of the arts, philanthropist.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The law started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You remind me of a---of a rose, an absolute rose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Beautiful little fool.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glint along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Neither of them can stand the person they're married to.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lines 2-4.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. McKee was asleep on a chair with his fist clenched in his lap, like a photograph of a man of action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and the champagne and the stars.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Follies is a play based off affairs and lies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If I would attend his 'little party' that night.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To set a wall between them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Good neighbors keep a certain amount of distance from each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As one long block of text without any breaks between lines, the poem suggests the image of a wall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The nature of social relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That she was not just crying hard, she was crying her eyes out, because that was the last straw for her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It means it was a time of contradictions, where foolishness helped you gain wisdom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both were described as having a large jaw, but the queen of England had a plain face while the queen of France had a fair face.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The author prefers the congress because he is congratulating them on how well they are.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An addition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The work of deliberating exertion of your patriotism, firmness, and wisdom to the United States.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He means engaging and doing something to influence the support for one's country.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Painters would rather paint something painful than paint something that looks like another painting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Looking at the painting causes him to feel pain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nine-hundred-year-old poetic structure that follows a pattern of sixes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Grace likes patterns that are new to her more than patterns that are familiar to her.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The significance of patterns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The neighbor's property is full of pine trees, while the speaker's property is full of apple trees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Food that is prepared or eaten.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is divided into six sections, and each section is divided into six paragraphs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wants Pip to bring him food and vittles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because she does not have enough money to purchase a present for Christmas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She gets the money by bargaining with the grocer and other vendors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Her tears reflect sadness due to her inability to buy a present during a joyful time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'A wall' (line 1).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The young man in hiding is more violent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clarity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deceit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hope/envy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gatsby's rise from the poor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Poverty.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A reference to another literary work.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Comparison of two things in a text.</p> Signup and view all the answers