Lord of the Flies Review Game

Read each definition and choose the correct vocabulary word Vocabulary to Know Read each definition and choose the correct vocabulary word

To mock or taunt

Answer: Jeer

Thoughtfully agreed; concurred

Answer: Assented

Depressing; overwhelming

Answer: Oppressive

Commotion; riot

Answer: Tumult

Urged or drove forcefully

Answer: Compelled

Hostility; mutual hatred

Answer: Enmity

Walk at a leisurely pace

Answer: Saunter

In a manner of vicious hatred

Answer: Malevolently

Make gestures when speaking to show strong feelings

Answer: Gesticulate

Unable to speak clearly

Answer: Inarticulate

Not easily understood; mysterious

Answer: Inscrutable

Banned by morality or taste

Answer: Taboo

Detestable; unpleasant

Answer: Abominable

Decent; correct; fitting

Answer: Decorous

Contemptuous laughter; ridicule

Answer: Derision

Long, angry or violent speech

Answer: Tirade

Sly; surreptitious; underhanded

Answer: Furtive

Mournfully; regrettably

Answer: Lamentably

Mad; insane

Answer: Demented

Hung like decorations

Answer: Festooned

Anger due to unjust treatment

Answer: Indignation

Unspoken; implied

Answer: Tacit

Break; gap; pause

Answer: Hiatus

Obvious in an offensive manner

Answer: Blatant

Lost its attraction

Answer: Palled

Feeling shame or humiliation

Answer: Crestfallen

Reprimand; criticize; reprove

Answer: Rebuke

Massive; clumsy; enormous

Answer: Elephantine

Looked with annoyance or anger

Answer: Glowered

Pungent or bitter odor or taste

Answer: Acrid

Nearsightedness

Answer: Myopia

Discouraging; dismaying

Answer: Daunting

Emotional intensity; passion

Answer: Fervor

Distrustful of human nature

Answer: Cynical

Incapable of being affected

Answer: Impervious

The author’s attitude towards the subject

Answer: Tone

The reader’s feelings towards the subject

Answer: Mood

People are born inherently evil

Answer: Ignoble savage

People are born inherently good

Answer: Noble savage

A story that represents a bigger idea to teach a lesson for moral or political reasons

Answer: Allegory

Let’s look at the bigger picture and literary devices now… Read the following questions and write the BEST answer for each

Ralph and Jack are which type of character to each other?

Answer: Foil

What is Ralph’s main motivation?

Answer: To get rescued

What is Piggy’s main motivation?

Answer: To help Ralph

What is Jack’s main motivation?

Answer: To have power

Who or what symbolizes pure goodness and innocence?

Answer: Simon

Who or what symbolizes hope, salvation, and rescue?

Answer: The signal fire

Who or what symbolizes the evil in all mankind?

Answer: The Beast

Who or what symbolizes anarchy and savagery?

Answer: Jack

Who or what symbolizes the attraction of evil?

Answer: Lord of the Flies

Who or what symbolizes the Garden of Eden and the corruption of man?

Answer: The island

Who or what symbolizes knowledge and insight as well as representing the status of civilization on the island?

Answer: Piggy’s specs

Who or what symbolizes man’s penchant for causing harm to others?

Answer: Roger

Who represents the Superego?

Answer: Ralph

Who represents the ID?

Answer: Jack

Who represents the Ego?

Answer: Piggy

When does this story take place?

Answer: During WWII

What type of government does Jack represent?

Answer: A dictatorship—He doesn’t let others speak (Hitler)

What type of government does Ralph represent?

Answer: A democracy—He lets others speak (Britain/Churchill)

Lord of the Flies is an allegory teaching about what 2 things?

Answer: Good vs Evil and WWII

What does darkness represent?

Answer: Fear

What does the “mask” do and represent?

Answer: Allows the boys to hide their civility

When the wind is blowing the deceased parachute man around, imagery is used. What is Golding trying to teach us in this moment?

Answer: We have no control/ We’re puppets

Jack is described as a stain at one point in the novel Jack is described as a stain at one point in the novel. Why is this an accurate description of him?

Answer: He ruins everything he touches

What is the significance of the butterflies leaving and being replaced by flies in chapter 8?

Answer: Peace is gone and replaced by death and rotting civility

What does Golding feel about mankind’s nature?

Answer: He believes we’re all ignoble savages

What type of irony is used when Roger knocks the rock down, killing Piggy?

Answer: Situational Irony

What type of irony is used when the naval officer says the boys have been playing on the island?

Answer: Dramatic Irony

What is the significance of Percival forgetting his address at the end of the novel?

Answer: It shows he has forgotten his civility

Why did Golding choose to have the characters be children instead of adults?

Answer: to demonstrate that innocence is dead

What does Ralph’s “curtain” represent?

Answer: His fight against his savage side

Why did Golding choose a pig to be hunted?

Answer: Because it’s similar to humans, especially with its screams

Who or what allegorically represents Hitler?

Answer: Jack

Who or what allegorically represents the Jewish population?

Answer: Piggy

Who or what allegorically represents Britain/Winston Churchill?

Answer: Ralph

Who or what allegorically represent(s) the bystanders under Hitler’s rule?

Answer: Samneric

Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages”?

Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away”?

Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “Which is better—to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “The thing is—fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream”?

Answer: Fear

Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “Things are breaking up Which theme is demonstrated with this quote: “Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then---”?

Answer: Civilization vs. Savagery

Which themes are demonstrated with this quote: “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill! I’m part of you. Close, close, close. I’m the reason why it’s no go. Why things are what they are”?

Answer: Fear & Civilization vs. Savagery

Which theme is demonstrated when the boys kill Simon?

Answer: Loss of innocence

Which theme is demonstrated through Ralph and Jack’s struggle to be in charge?

Answer: Power vs. Leadership

What is Golding trying to teach us about fear?

Answer: Fear can consume us

What is Golding trying to teach us about power and leadership?

Answer: It is better to be a leader than have power because having power can corrupt a person

What is Golding trying to teach us about civilization and savagery?

Answer: Civilization is doomed to collapse due to people’s savage nature

What is Golding trying to teach us about the loss of innocence?

Answer: Due to mankind’s savage nature which leads to war, people no longer have any innocence

What war did Golding serve in which influenced this novel and its themes?

Answer: WWII

What represents intellect, and how is it treated?

Answer: Piggy’s specs, and it is not valued