- Imagery-“She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering.”(25)
- Appositive-“during the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad”(51)
- Personification-“the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn”(61)
- Repetition-“There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion”(104)
- Simile-“indefinable expression, at once definitely unfamiliar and vaguely recognizable, as if I had only heard it described in words, passed over Gatsby’s face.”(121)
Throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses many rhetorical strategies. I think that he
uses these to ultimately demonstrate his choice of writing, other wise known as his style. To me
Fitzgerald’s style in this book is somewhat serious and formal. He is very serious when describing
the lavish parties and he also writes in a very formal way as well. The rhetorical strategies he
employees aids to his formalistic type of writing.When Fitzgerald describes the women of this time
period I also feel as if he is being very elegant in the way he uses his words to describe them, almost
making them all sound beautiful which to me makes sense seeing that this book is based on the
1920s era where men were “gentlemen”.
uses these to ultimately demonstrate his choice of writing, other wise known as his style. To me
Fitzgerald’s style in this book is somewhat serious and formal. He is very serious when describing
the lavish parties and he also writes in a very formal way as well. The rhetorical strategies he
employees aids to his formalistic type of writing.When Fitzgerald describes the women of this time
period I also feel as if he is being very elegant in the way he uses his words to describe them, almost
making them all sound beautiful which to me makes sense seeing that this book is based on the
1920s era where men were “gentlemen”.
I especially like how you included in you rhetorical strategies the description of Myrtle. Throughout the novel, Fitsgerald uses extremely detailed imagery in each character's description and the environment they are in. Fitsgerald's description of Myrtle is a perfect example of this in that not only is her physical structure explained but even the way she carries her self is portrayed, giving the reader an image, in theory, very similar to the way Fitzgerald envisioned her.
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