Lord Of The Flies Figurative Language

A detailed book is like unicorns and rainbows. When unicorns and rainbows are visualized, they are often very colorful. Imagine a book with no details at all; it will give off a black and white feeling. A book with a variety of colors gives readers more understanding of the context. William Golding was in the Royal Navy before he started writing. As William Golding wrote literature as a response to his own beliefs, he expressed his emotions with many tools. The book Coral Island inspired Golding to write, Lord of the Flies, a book which shows the breakdown of civilization and the light and dark in humans. William Golding uses a plethora of descriptive writing to paint a picture in the Lord of the Flies using foreshadowing, mood, tone, and many types of figurative language. Golding uses many examples of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperboles. A simile and metaphor compares two unlike objects. To differentiate the two, similes uses like or as and metaphors directly compares the two objects. An example of simile that Golding used is, “ Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back…” Ralph is being compared to the plane to show the wingspan of Ralph’s arms. If Golding just wrote that Ralph was waving his arms
With the use of figurative language, tone, mood, and foreshadowing, the readers will be able to relate to the book and visualize the actions in motion. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus,” said Mark Twain. All books have pictures but some are not seen with the naked eye. The authors paint the picture. The perspicacious audience piece together the aspects of the image using their insight. All together the pictures may vary and differ, but everyone has their own