Literary Terms
Which literary term refers to very descriptive writing that paints a picture in the reader's mind?
What is Imagery?
Which character said the following: “We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?”
Who is "the naval officer"?
Who is elected chief at the beginning of the novel?
Who is Ralph?
Who killed Piggy?
Who is "Roger"?
Who is the author of Lord of the Flies?
Who is William Golding.
What literary term means "the conscious use of objects or characters meant to be taken literally and as representative of some higher, more complex meaning?
What is Symbolism?
Which character said the following: “The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don’t keep a fire going?”
Who is "Ralph"?
Which tone word best describes the boys’ mood at the beginning of the book?
What is "lighthearted and adventurous"?
How do Jack and his hunters get Piggy's glasses?
What is "by ambushing Ralph's group at night and stealing them"?
What are the "creepers"?
What are...Vines in the jungle?
Which literary term. means "a message/moral/life lesson that a story conveys"?
What is Theme?
Which character said the following: “We’ll have rules! Lot’s of rules! Then when anyone breaks –em!”
Who is "Jack"?
Why do the boys chop off the pig head and put it on top of a spear?
What is "to make a sacrifice to the beast"?
What was the beast (literally) that Sam, Eric, Jack, and Ralph saw?
What is "a dead man with a parachute"?
What do the boys use to light the rescue fire for the first time?
What is "Piggy's glasses"?
Which literary term means "a reference to history, literature, or mythology"?
What is Allusion?
Which character said the following: “It was an accident, that's what it was. An accident."
Who is "Piggy"?
What is Ralph and Piggy's motivation for visiting Jack's. tribe at Castle Rock?
What is "Ralph and Piggy hope to reason with Jack's tribe in order to get back Piggy's glasses"?
What happened the first time Jack went to kill a pig?
What is "He hesitated and did not stab the pig at the last second"?
During which time period does Lord of the Flies take place?
What is after World War II? (Roughly around the year 1950)
What literary term refers to when a reader needs to infer information about a character through a character's actions or thoughts?
What is Indirect Characterization?
Which character said the following: “I got the conch! Just you listen! The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn’t half cold down there in the night. But the first time Ralph says ‘fire’ you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!”
Who is "Piggy"?
What is the significance of "a stick sharpened at both ends?"
What is "whatever was hunted would be beheaded and the head would be put on the stick"?
Jack and the choirboys manage to kill a pig, but what did they miss while they were out hunting?
What is "the chance to be rescued"?
What had Piggy overheard the pilot saying from the beginning of the novel?
What is "he overheard the pilot saying that an 'atom bomb' went off at the airport and killed everyone.