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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Sibilance

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

the reef.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Imagery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Their footsteps and the occasional breeze were stirring up small

devils of dust.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Sibilance

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

the mountain punched up a hole of blackness.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

There was a slithering noise high above them...

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3