Right off the bat, compare Gatsby to Barnum. Barnum says "This is the Greatest Show. It's everything you'll ever want, it's everything you'll ever need." How is this idea similar to Gatsby's philosophy?

Match the description to the word. 1. a long narrative poem-national in scope, heroic in character and action alliteration 2. poet epic 3. pertaining to a formal poem; a meditation upon a serious subject comitatus 4. the repetition of the initial sounds in two or more words of a line of poetry kennings 5. double comparisons or metaphors half-line 6. a relationship between a leader and his retainers elegiac 7. fate hlaford 8. lord scop 9. the basic unit of meter in anglo-saxon poetry wyrd