Final Exam Review - AP Lang

Which of the following is a central theme in The Great Gatsby?

• Overcoming poverty through hard work

• The illusion of the American Dream

• Revenge and justice

• Survival in the wilderness

“He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father’s business”

• Metaphor

• Chiasmus

• Allusion

“Two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.”

• Simile

• Anaphora

• oxymoron

“The wind whispered through the trees and danced across the open fields, brushing past flowers and fences alike...”

• Imagery

• Personification

• Polysyndeton

“mysterious mountains” “silent streams” “whispering willows”

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Characterization

“By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.”

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Polysyndeton

“It’s a beautiful night for a funeral.”

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Paradox

“bitter sweet”

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

From where did the narrator come, and why?

• Narrator Nick Carraway came east from the Northwest(Washington State) to make his fortune working in the bond market.

• Narrator Nick Carraway came east from the Northeast (Maine) to make his fortune working in the bond market.

• Narrator Nick Carraway came east from the Midwest (Minnesota) to make his fortune working in the bond market.

“This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens”—

• contains paradoxical imagery

• describes a location in West Egg

• describes a location in New York City

• explains the death of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg