List of 11 Examples of Alliteration in The Great Gatsby
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Need to find moments in his magnum opus where F. Scott Fitzgerald uses a particular literary technique? Check out this list of alliterations quotes in The Great Gatsby.
| "And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock." |
| "At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden." |
| "For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes. All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust." |
| "I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground." |
| "While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily." |
| "A dead man passed us in a hearse heaped with blooms..." |
| "Despite dire conditions, Dan deftly defended the dam." |
| "Fifty flimsy flivvers flew past the filthy farm." |
| "On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’œuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold." |
| "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." |
| "'Surely she cannot be serious,' Sally screamed." |
