The Seashell by the Seashore.

"' S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It's ever so valuable-'"
(Golding 15)

In Chapter 1 of The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, the audience is first introduce to one of the major symbols in the plot, the conch. The quote to the right  was said at the beginning of the plot by Piggy, a young intelligent boy who struggles with his body image. After a plane crash to an unknown island, Piggy realizes his school classmates are scattered  throughout this island and tells the protagonist, Ralph, to use the found conch as a horn to summon all the kids together. I chose this quote because the connection to Piggy's past experience of someone using a conch as a horn allowed the plot to flow fluently. If it wasn't for this connection, the kids would not have been reunited. The quote contains the rhetorical devices of foreshadowing, as one can predict the conch will be used this way even though it's not stated, and diction, as some words are contracted and spelled peculiarly to show Piggy's British nationality through his dialect. 

Analysis: Golding is very ambiguous through out his plot, which is part of his style, but selects specific characters and dialogues as places to put clues that will help his audience understand the plot better. The dialogue between Piggy and Ralph is placed at the start of the rising action and by placing the English slang in his quote, Golding was able to maintain the suspense but indirectly characterize Piggy. Also, the quote emphasizes Piggy's keenness, his most predominant characteristic, and brings out the theme, unity is a crucial trait of civilization, through the symbolic interpretation of reuniting the lost kids by the use of a conch.