Gatsby Terminology

• Linking is key when essay writing
• Modal worlds

  Epistemic = thinking
• Titular (adjective)


  Relating to or denoted by a title, for example 'Jay Gatsby' is the novellas titular character.
• Novella


  A short novel
• Verisimilitude (noun)


  Truth.

  e.g. Nicks Carraways narration offers verismilitude to the events he recalls.'
• Pejorative (noun / adjective )


  An insult

  e.g Tom Buchanan on occasion uses pejoratives to mock Gatsbys persona.
• Zeitgeist (noun)


  The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history

  e.g. Fitzgerald's novel can be percieved as an observation of the zeitgeist of the roaring twenties.'