Learning intention: To analyse some of the techniques used in the novel and how they are used to create meaning.
Step One: Literary features
1. Go to the following website:.
2. Create your own table of the following literary features listed.
3. Choose three of these devices and find examples of them in the novel.
4. Find examples of language that is strange or unusual or unique to The Great Gatsby. How does this language create meaning? What is the effect of this language on the reader?
Find/write descriptions (two or three sentences) for each of these settings.
Find a map of these areas and include images to support what they might have looked like.
Answer the following question- how would this story have been different if it had been set in Australia?
Step Two: Characterisation
Create a graphic organiser that includes all (or most) of the characters in the novel. Your graphic organiser must include quotes that identify:
physical description
description of personality
connections between characters (eg, friends or 'friends')
Step Four: Writing!
Using the same analytical language as Term One, write three paragraph analysing how the literary features, the characterisation and settings are used by Fitzgerald to create meaning in his writing.
Go back to your notes from Henry Lawson for help:)