english

• the hobbit's author is - John Ronald Reuel Tolkienn
• middle earth - peopled by men (and women) elves, dwarves trolls and of course hobbits.
• setting - refers to the time and location in which a story takes place.
• novel - long narrative that usually runs from 100-500 pages
• British English - dialects and vocabulary the came from german people
• american english - American English began in the 17th century when the

  first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in the

  Americas.
• propaganda - refers to information which is stated in a biased manner
• testimonial - a popular and influential personality is paid to endorse a product person and cause
• name-calling - negativel labelling a person or thing
• bandwagon - persuades you to do the same thing that everyone else is doing
• glittering generalities - uses emotionally appealing words
• plain folks - certain personality doing

  things done by the common

  people to prove that he or she

  is one of them.
• card stacking - This technique hides the

  negative aspect while

  highlighting the positive

  one through biased

  comparison and

  manipulation of details.
• transfer - This technique involves

  associating something or

  someone with another that has

  positive or negative qualities, so

  the former will either be

  acceptable or unsuitable

  depending on the objective of the

  presentation.
• jay gatsby - ▪The title character and protagonist of the

  novel, Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy

  young man living in a Gothic mansion in

  West Egg.
• nick carraway - ▪A young man (he turns thirty

  during the course of the novel)

  from Minnesota, Nick travels to

  New York in 1922 to learn the

  bond business.
• daisy buchanan - is a beautiful young woman from

  Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s

  cousin and the object of Gatsby’s

  love.
• tom buchanan - Tom is, above all, characterized by physical

  and mental hardness. Physically, he has a

  large, muscle-bound, imposing frame.
• jordan baker - strikes Nick as mysterious, aloof,

  and alluring. Jordan belongs to the

  upper crust of society.
• Myrtle Wilson - desperately seeks a better

  life than the one she has. She feels

  imprisoned in her marriage to George, a

  downtrodden and uninspiring man who

  she mistakenly believed had good

  “breeding.”
• george wilson - owns an unsuccessful

  business in The Valley of Ashes, a poor

  neighborhood that lies between West Egg

  and Manhattan.
• meyer wolfsheim - Gatsby’s friend, a prominent figure in

  organized crime.
• owl eyes - ▪The eccentric,

  bespectacled drunk

  whom Nick meets at the

  first party he attends at

  Gatsby’s mansion.
• klipspringer - ▪The shallow freeloader who seems

  almost to live at Gatsby’s mansion,

  taking advantage of his host’s money.
• dan cody - He was a mining mogul in his

  fifties who had achieved

  incredible wealth and prestige.