The forest near them burst into uproar. Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling, so that the littluns fled screaming. Out of the corner of his eyes, Ralph saw Piggy running. Two figures rushed at the fire and he prepared to defend himself but they grabbed half-burnt branches and raced away along the beach. The three others stood still, watching Ralph; and he saw that the tallest of them, stark naked save for the paint and a belt, was Jack.
TH -- Repetition
S -- Alliteration
Rushed -- Repetition
Word Choice -- Use of dark and frantic language
No sounds or letters repeat in the first half of this paragraph, it's just frantic language and tone changes.In the last two sentences almost every word has a repeating sound. The point of this is that in the beginning everything is frantic and scary and jolting, so the language resembles that. Near the end everything has settled, everyone is standing still, and the chaos has ended. The last two sentences move freely and with a certain suavity that the beginning lacks. And at the very end, where the savage is revealed as Jack, the words suddenly stop flowing, fitting with Ralph's shock of recognizing the painted boy as his old friend. This passage is silently showing Ralph's reactions to the situation, from terror and panic to calm and slow to absolute shock.
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