Both Uses of
succession
in
Lord of the Flies
- The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.
p. 58.5succession = series
- In the succession of houses that Ralph had known, this one stood out with particular clarity because after that house he had been sent away to school.
p. 112.3 *succession = series (one after another)
Definitions:
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(1)
(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)
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(2)
(succession as in: presidential line of succession) replacement -- especially someone to taking a job or position after another leaves it