- Repetition: “…stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue” (Fitzgerald 92).
- Simile: “I cam into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress and as drunk as a monkey” (Fitzgerald 76).
- Personification: “Only wind in the trees, which blew the wires and made the lights go on and off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness” (Fitzgerald 81).
- Allusion: ‘“but I lost most of it in the big panic—the panic of the war”’ (Fitzgerald 90).
- Alliteration: “The name sounded faintly familiar” (Fitzgerald 93).
- Onomatopoeia: “jug-jug-spat!” (Fitzgerald 68).
In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald showed his simple but detailed style of writing through the use of a few rhetorical devices. Fitzgerald didn’t use a huge variety of stylistic and extravagant word choice or sentence types, but he was able to illustrate his point through imagery and details with a few strategies to support those ideas. His rhetorical devices flowed with the descriptions of the images and the use of these strategies seemed to be effortless. The narrator, Nick, is telling the stories that really happened during his lifetime. When he is describing the images of events, he uses simple language so the readers can get the best conception of the plot. Fitzgerald is so specific when telling each occasion so that his audience is able to vision what really happened as if they were almost there. An example of this is when he used an onomatopoeia when explaining the sound of a motorcycle, “Jug-jug-spat” (Fitzgerald 68). The readers are able to imagine exactly what the sounds were in that situation.
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