Lord of the Flies Ch. 1

Lord of the Flies Ch. 1

Reading Check Walkthrough

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Ba’alzevuv is

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Tagalog

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Beelzebub is

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Tagalog

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Ba’alzevuv and Beelzebub both translate to

• Lord

• Flies

• Chief

• The Beast

• Lord of the Flies

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The Lord of the Flies is DEVOTED to

• Decay

• Destruction

• Demoralization

• Defenestration

• Deforestation

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The Lord of the Flies, the Beast from the Water, the Beast from the Air, and the Beast from the Land are all a reference to the Bible.

The term for making a literary reference is an

• Allegory

• Analogy

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

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"En media res" is Latin for how the book begins and is a literary term that means...

• "in the status quo"

• "in the midst of things"

• "inside out"

• "in utero"

• "in and out"

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“The boy with fair hair,” and “the owner of the voice…” are examples of an

• epithet

• epigraph

• epistle

• epilogue

• epitaph

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“The boy with fair hair,” is

• Piggy

• Ralph

• Jack

• Simon

• Roger

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The plane crash on the island reveals

• Water vs. Desert

• Fire vs. Ice

• Heaven vs. Hell

• Nature vs. Mechanistic World

• Innate Wisdom vs. Educated Stupidity

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The crash is described as a "scar" revealing which archetype

• The Devil Figure

• The Creature of Nightmare

• The Friendly Beast

• The Magic Weapon

• The Unhealable Wound

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The "scar" on the island is an allusion

• The mark of Cain

• Harry Potter

• Picachu

• The Lion King

• Rick and Morty

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The boys a looking for a man. The man has an object.

What is the object the man has. The man with the

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The man with the megaphone sets up the scene of Ralph with his object

What is the LITERARY TERMS for this...

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What object does Ralph hold a...

Multiple Choice

How many adults are in chapter 1?

• 0

• 1

• 11-20

• 33

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The island is an ALLUSION to

• England

• America

• The Garden of Eden

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An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.

• Utopia

• Youtube

• Zoolander

• Zootopia

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The kids don't know each other. Ralph is introduced, and the other kid is only referred to as

• Morty

• Mortimer

• Ralphred

• Piggy

• Fat boy

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With whom does the "fat boy" live?

• Mom

• Dad

• Mom & Dad

• Grandma

• Auntie

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The fat boy is unique because he is "the only boy in our school" with

Multiple Choice

What is the only name the "fat boy" does not want to be called

• fat

• boy

• fat boy

• Piggy

• Biggie

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Piggy has been wearing specs since he was

• Born

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 13

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Piggy referring to them as "specs" brings to mind British...

The term for the associations a word makes is

• denotation

• connotation

• quotation

• consonance

• assonance

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The jungle is described with heat, and witch's cry, and darkness... Appealing to these sense is known as this literary term:

• Sensory

• Imagery

• Sensoria

• Imogene

• Picturesque

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How does the author symbolize the kids' vulnerability...

• They have hearts on the sleeves of their uniforms

• Ralph disrobes and is naked

• Piggy folds his clothes

• The jungle sings

• a blue bird lands on Ralph's shoulder

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Their nakedness and lack of self-consciousness is meant to be an allusion to

• Adam and Eve

• Birth

• Birthdays

• The Apocalypse

• Jesus

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Ralph is

• built like a boxer

• is a choir leader

• the only boy with glasses

• sadistic

• "phlarp" spelled backwards

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Piggy is symbolic of

• strength

• civilization

• confidence

• playfulness

• humor

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What LITERARY term applies to Piggy's inability to leave his past behind and separate himself from his image?

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What LITERARY term for the author's central idea in literature?

Man's Inhumanity Toward Man

Default Theme (for almost anything)

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After learning "Piggy's" name, Ralph laughs and pretends to be a

• pig

• piglet

• fighter plane

• fly

• lord of the flies

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Given Ralph pretends to be a fighter plane, the reader can infer it is during

• World War I

• World War II

• World War III

• The Civil War

• The Revolutionary War

Man's Inhumanity Toward Man

• Beelzebub = The Lord of the Flies

• for Golding = This is NOT ABOUT THE DEVIL

• Devil = External

• Golding seeks INTERNAL CONFLICT

“[A]n attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature”

Golding's Theme

“[T]he shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable” 

Golding's Moral

Freud

• The SUPEREGO

• The Ego

• The Id

• Id = base, primal urge

• Can't point to Devil (look within)