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somsa
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In Chapter 2 of "Lord of the Flies", what are two similes to describe the flames?

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Posted by somsa on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 7:53 PM and tagged with chapter 2, flame, lord of the flies, similes, style.

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  1. dymatsuoka

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    A simile is a figure of speech where two unlike things are compared using "like" or "as".  There are some notable similes used in Chapter 2 to describe the flames.

    In one especially descriptive simile, the author compares the flames to a squirrel.  He says,

    "Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood...one patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel...the squirrel leapt on the wings of the wind and clung to another standing tree, eating downwards".

    A few lines later in the same paragraph, the flames are compared to another animal, the jaguar -

    "The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock" (Chapter 2).

     

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/flies
    http://www.enotes.com/flies/chapter-2-summary-analysis

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    Posted by dymatsuoka on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 8:14 PM