Literary Device

1) Simile

“a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.”

 (26)

2) Foreshadowing

“He wants to know what you’re going to do about the snake-thing.”

(34)

Piggy speaks for a young boy who is scared of a snake-like beast. This foreshadows the boys’ upcoming struggle with and fear for the never existed beast.

3) Personification

a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin” (65)

4) Symbol

“We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smock on top of the mountain. We must make a fire.”

(37)

The fire on the mountain is a symbol for civilization as it is the sole connection between the boys on the deserted island and the civilized world back home. Whenever the fire is out, a further step of degeneration into savagery will occur.

5) Metaphor

“Beyond the tribe and the twins were a loud and writhing heap”

(198)

6) Dramatic irony

“Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”

(65)

At first, all the boys on the island are still subjected to rules from the civilized world, wishing to return to it soon. Yet they don’t know the fact that a war has broke out in their homeland and the society they wish to return is a minor image, on a larger scale, of the boys’ chaotic world.

7) Alliteration

“The first rhyme that they became uses to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dust.”

8) Epithet

“The smaller boys were known now by the generic name of ‘littluns’.”

(61)

9) Hyperbole

“In a year or two when the war's over, they'll be traveling to Mars and back.”

(84)

10)Assonance

“ the creepers shivered throughout their length.”

(57)