Camp
2012
The Great Gatsby
Annotate for the following devices regularly. You may want to use a color-coded system. You will be
tested on these and expected to know them at all times—even if I stop you in the hall and ask you to
identify them!
1.
Simile
2.
Motif
3.
Hyperbole
4.
Metaphor
5.
Foil
6.
Satire
7.
Personification
8.
Irony: Dramatic irony, situational irony and verbal irony.
9.
Asyndeton
10. Polysyndeton
11. Anaphora
12. Metonymy & synecdoche
13. Oxymoron
14. Paradox
15. Zeitgeist (German "Time-ghost" or "Spirit of the Age)
16. Analogy
17. Connotation
18. Denotation
19. Caricature
20. Dynamic Character
21. Static character
22. Point of View
23. Reliable/unreliable narration
24. Roman a clef
25. Epigraph