Lord of the Flies Figurative Language

The audience knowing that the "beast" on the mountain peak is just a dead parachutist, while the characters don't know, is an example of

• Dramatic irony

• Sibilance alliteration

• Juxtaposition

• Paradox

Personification is

• Comparison between two things that are unlike in most ways, except one key way, and doesn't use like or as

• Comparison between two things that are unlike in most ways, except one key way, and does use like or as

• Repetition of the same letters which improves the sound quality of the sentence

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

Hyperbole is

• Comparison between two things that are unlike in most ways, except one key way, and doesn't use like or as

• Comparison between two things that are unlike in most ways, except one key way, and does use like or as

• Repetition of the same letters which improves the sound quality of the sentence

• A metaphorical exaggeration for dramatic or comedic effect

It took Ralph at low water when his nerve was relaxed for the

return to the shelter and the still, friendly waters of the lagoon.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack, detached itself and began to draw away.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Sibilance

The glittering lengths of the lagoon lay below them and beyond that a long white smudge that was

the reef.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Imagery

Once more they set out to climb the slope of the mountain. The

darkness seemed to flow round them like a tide.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Sibilance

Their footsteps and the occasional breeze were stirring up small

devils of dust.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Sibilance

...round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where

the mountain punched up a hole of blackness.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

There was a slithering noise high above them...

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile