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This quiz assesses AO2, the author's use of language.
Golding's novel is rich in animal imagery conveying the boys' degeneration from a civilised human state to one of inhuman savagery. Examples from this semantic field are as follows:
Ralph is described as eating like a .
In Chapter 3 ('Huts on the Beach') Jack is described as 'down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth', the comparison being drawn with a .
Ralph describes himself, Piggy and Simon as .
The naval officer sees the boys as 'a pack of British boys' (Chapter 12: 'Cry of the Hunters'), drawing an implicit comparison with .
The boys are compared to with the use of the word for the sound they make collectively.
Ralph calls Jack a .
Fill in the missing comparison: 'Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, -like among the tangle of trees' (Chapter 3 : 'Huts on the Beach').
The boys cast shadows like .
Fill in the missing comparison: 'Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a 's after it has been killed' (Chapter 11: 'Castle Rock').
The choirboys sit like on the tree trunks.
Fill in the missing comparison: Ralph: 'If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like . We'll never be rescued' (Chapter 5: 'Beast from Water').
Henry is compared to a when he points to the water.
Fill in the missing comparison for Ralph's flight from his pursuers in Chapter 12: 'And there again, shrill and inevitable, was the ululation sweeping across the island. At that sound he shied like a among the creepers and ran once more till he was panting' (Chapter 12: 'Cry of the Hunters).