english exam OLE
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- symbolizes dictatorship
- Jack
- "What's grownups gonna think?"
- Piggy
- "You're a silly boy..."
- Lord of the Flies
- is a christ-figure
- Simon
- symbolizes voice of reason
- Piggy
- symbolizes evil
- Roger
- "There's no food here...and no shelter."
- Ralph
- symbolizes clearsightedness
- Piggy's specs
- symbolizes democracy
- Ralph
- symbolized order and authority
- conch
- where evil comes from in Coral Island
- outside the person
- symbolizes satan
- Lord of the Flies
- symbolizes rescue
- fire on the mountain
- symbolizes boys on the island
- flies
- "Maybe there is a beast..."
- Simon
- book LOTF is based on
- Coral Island
- ululating
- hooting, howling, wailing, lamenting loudly
- theme of LOTF
- everyone is capable of violence humans are flawed
- what the author of "Schoolboys" and peers are similar to the boys on the island
- hierarchies secret societies
- derision
- ridicule
- William Golding's chosen occupation
- schoolmaster/teacher
- menace
- a threat or a troublesome, annoying person
- indignant
- filled with anger over something unjust
- "We saw your smoke." "What have you been doing, having a war or something?"
- naval officer
- simile
- comparison using like or as
- theme
- overarching idea
- allusion
- reference to another writing (poem, book)
- irony
- island shaped like a boat but going nowhere
- microcosm
- miniature/smaller version of something large island and the world around it
- foreshadowing
- clue that the author gives that something is going to happen
- metaphor
- comparison without like or as
- Ray Bradbury's first inspiration
- Mr. Electrico
- "It is the past; I'm returning to England. I've lost my hopes of utility and glory."
- Robert Walton
- syndic, father of three sons and a girl raised like their own
- Alphonse Frankenstein
- only member of Victor's immediate family alive at the end
- Ernest
- mischief
- creature
- creatures first murder victim
- William
- first time the creature vows to take revenge against man
- when the DeLacey family leaves their cottage for good
- servant in the Frankensteins' home
- Justine
- Professor at Ingolstadt, says Victor is wasting his time studying alchemy
- M. Krempe
- "My affection for my guest increases each day."
- Robert Walton
- "You know well Victor, our union..."
- Elizabeth Lavenza
- friend of Mary Shelley
- Lord Byron
- Victor doesn't finish the female creature because...
- he fears that the creatures' children will cause destruction
- imprecate
- to curse
- subtitle to the book
- , or the Modern Prometheus
- where Victor's search for the creature ends
- Walton's boat the Arctic
- color of creature's skin
- yellow
- motif of Frankenstein
- flight and pursuit
- islands north of Scotland, works on female creature there
- Orkney Islands
- inuring
- getting used to something by prolonged exposure