Lord of the Flies Review Game Vocabulary to
Lord of the Flies Review Game
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. 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. 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. 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
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