Question

1.

a. Dramatic Irony
b. Imagery
c. Metaphor
d. Indirect Characterization
2.
e. Simile
3.
4.
"So when the blue smoke of brittle
leaves was in the air and the wind blew
the wet laundry stiff on the line
decided to go home."
"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of
the youth and mystery that wealth
imprisons and preserves, of the
freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy,
gleaming like silver, safe and proud
above the hot struggles of the poor."
"Her voice is full of money."
"They were carless people, Tom and
Daisy-- they smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into
their money of their vast carelessness
or whatever it was that kept them
together, and let other people clean up
the mess they made made..."
"Her expression was curiously familiar--
it was an expression I had often seen on
women's faces, but on Myrtle Wilson's
face it seemed purposeless and
inexplicable until I realized that her
eyes, wide with jealous terror, were
fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker,
whom she took to be his wife."
5.

Answer 1

Mom ran out of the room and came back with one of the army surplus blankets I hated because the wool was so scratchy. She threw the blanket around me to smother the flames. Dad had gone off in the car, so Mom grabbed me and my younger brother, Brian, and hurried over to the trailer next to ours. The woman who lived there was hanging her laundry on the clothesline. She had clothespins in her mouth. Mom, in an unnaturally calm voice, explained what had happened and asked if we could please have a ride to the hospital. The woman dropped her clothespins and laundry right there in the dirt and, without saying anything, ran for her car.

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