Methods & Form Flashcards
All 10 cards in this deck
How many chapters does Lord of the Flies have?
Twelve.
What kind of story did Golding call Lord of the Flies?
A fable; it is often called an allegory.
What kind of narrator tells the novel?
A third-person omniscient narrator.
Whose point of view is the story mostly told from?
Ralph’s.
What does the crashed plane leave in the jungle at the start?
A long scar.
What weather breaks as Simon is killed?
A violent storm: pathetic fallacy.
What do the boys roll off the mountain top in Chapter 1, foreshadowing Piggy’s death?
A great rock.
What surrounds Simon’s body as the tide carries it out to sea?
Glowing, luminous sea creatures.
Through whose eyes are the boys seen in the final pages?
The naval officer’s, so they look like small, dirty children.
What irony is there in the boys’ rescue?
The officer’s own ship is fighting in a war.