In the following paragraph, what device does Fitzgerald use to create a musical effect in The Great Gatsby? Cite at least three examples. About...

What a fascinating question.  I must be honest, there is
no one literary device that jumps out at me and screams "music."  There is, however, a
certain rythm and cadence in this selection which inspire an image of musicality.  If I
had to put a name to it, I'd say it was personification because of the movement of
objects in the piece.

First we have a road,  veering toward
the train tracks and shrinking away from the gray and ashy terrain. Then we see the only
growing things, ashes "grow[ing] like wheat into ridges and hills," and ashes rising
like chimneys, and "men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air,"
suggesting a movement much like the sweeping ups and downs and fading away of a musical
composition.

Occasionally. it says we see a slow line of
cars which "crawl" and "creak," adding to the song of the ash heaps. There is a flurry
of ashes caused by the digging of spades, a great cloud of dust, this amazing  (and
amusing) billboard rising transcendent from the dust.  Then there is a sinking and a
dimming and a brooding, all very evocative of an orchestral piece winding down to its
coda.

Not sure if this is what you (or your teacher) is
looking for, but the elements and the dust do create a veritable symphony of the ash
heaps.