The underlined portions of the excerpt are examples of verbal irony because this man truly is virtuous and patriotic, so swift is surprised by the man’s support of eating children to solve the poverty issue. anyone who is truly virtuous or patriotic would not suggest using children for food, so swift means the opposite of what he says. this man is a close friend of swift’s, so swift is just expressing his personal thoughts and feelings about the man’s character. anyone who tries to better his country must be virtuous and patriotic, so swift is simply explaining what is already obvious to the reader. mark this and return

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

AUTHOR

F. Scott Fitzgerald

BOOK

The Great Gatsby

CHARACTERS

Daisy

Jay Gatsby

CONCEPT

dreams

#3

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

AUTHOR

F. Scott Fitzgerald

BOOK

The Great Gatsby

CHARACTER

Carraway

CONCEPT

death

#4

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

Explanation: