Literary Form (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Literary genre definition
Literary genre definition
Category of artistic composition by style, form, or content
Four genres in The Great Gatsby
Four genres in The Great Gatsby
Tragedy, realism, modernism, social satire
Modern tragedy vs classical: key difference
Modern tragedy vs classical: key difference
Society is destructive force, not gods
Real location that becomes East Egg
Real location that becomes East Egg
Great Neck
Modernism definition (Holman)
Modernism definition (Holman)
Historical discontinuity, alienation, loss, and despair
T.S. Eliot poem that influenced Gatsby
T.S. Eliot poem that influenced Gatsby
The Waste Land
Valley of Ashes alludes to
Valley of Ashes alludes to
T.S. Eliot's wasteland imagery
Metafiction meaning
Metafiction meaning
Prose that draws attention to itself as fictional work
Nick Carraway's narrative role
Nick Carraway's narrative role
Unreliable, self-aware, limited perspective narrator
Novel's structural pattern
Novel's structural pattern
Quasi-volta: 9 chapters pivot around chapter 5 reunion
When Nick tells his story
When Nick tells his story
Two years after 1922 summer events
Nick's phrase for his social position
Nick's phrase for his social position
Within and without
Synaesthetic language examples
Synaesthetic language examples
Yellow cocktail music, warm darkness, pale gold odour
Green light symbolism
Green light symbolism
Hope, longing, American Dream
Car symbolism in the novel
Car symbolism in the novel
Status and destruction