SYMBOLOISM
This item symbolizes law and order.
Answer - What is the conch?
He is described in the following passage:
“It was an accident… that’s what it was. An Accident… Coming in the dark — he hadn’t no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it.”
Answer - Who is Simon?
This term means using one thing to represent something else.
Answer - What is SYMBOLISM?
This is the main diet of the boys when they first land on the island.
Answer - What is fruit?
Percival can’t remember his name, address, or telephone number by the end of the novel.
Answer - What is loss of identity?
This item symbolizes intelligence and survival?
Answer - What are Piggy's spectacles?
“I’m going to go to him with this conch in my hands. I’m going to hold it out. Look, I’m goin’ to say, you’re stronger than I am and you haven’t got asthma. You can see, I’m goin’ to say, and with both eyes. But I don’t ask you to be a sport, I’ll say, not because you’re strong, but because what’s right’s right. Give me my glasses, I’m going to say—you got to!”
Answer - Who is Piggy?
This is the term for visually descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses
EX: The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings.
Answer - What is IMAGERY?
This is the first “littlun” to tell the boys about the “beastie”.
Answer - Who is the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark?
The Lord of the Flies says that he is a part of all of the boys and that they are foolish for trying to hunt and kill it
Answer - What is fear is mankind’s essential illness?
This character symbolizes moral thinking.
Answer - Who is Ralph?
“You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?”
Answer - Who is the Lord of the Flies?
A distinctive feature or dominant idea that is repeated consistently in an artistic or literary composition
EXAMPLE: Changes in the physical environment whenever something important has happened or has been said
Answer - What is a MOTIF?
This is the name the boys give to the path torn through the jungle by the plane when it crashed on the island
Answer - What is the scar?
Early on, Jack wipes blood off his hands in disgust, but later Jack and the hunters cut off a pig’s head and put it on a spike as an offering for the beast
Answer - What is loss of innocence?
This item symbolizes hope and rescue.
Answer - What is the signal fire?
“Honest, Ralph, you’d better go… You got to go because it’s not safe… You got to go for your own good. They hate you, Ralph. They’re going to do you.”
Answer - Who is Samneric?
Name the two literary devices that are demonstrated in the following passage:
“One patch [of fire] touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel.”
Answer - What are personification & simile?
This character votes that he doesn’t believe in ghosts
Answer - Who is Piggy?
DAILY DOUBLE
Jack says they’ll have lots of rules but later says they don’t need rules because they are strong and they can hunt and kill the beast.
Answer - What is loss of civilization?
"Lord of the Flies" is an English translation of this Biblical demon.
Answer - Who is Beelzebub?
“Let’s have a vote (for chief)”
Answer - Who is Roger?
This is the type of irony used when the narrator tells us that there is a dogfight going on above the island, a parachutist is killed, lands on the island, but none of the characters know about it.
Answer - What is dramatic irony?
This is the only place on the island the boys have not claimed to have seen the beast.
Answer - What is Castle Rock?
Roger pushes a boulder off a cliff and murders Piggy in cold blood, destroying the conch simultaneously.
Answer -
What is the inherent truth in human nature?
William Golding: “The theme (of the book) is an attempt to trace back the defects of society to the defects of human nature... The moral is that the shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system”.