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[quote=Anonymous]https://teachlikeachampion.org/blog/on-text-complexity-and-reading-part-1-the-five-plagues-of-the-developing-reader

The "readability" of a text (Lexile Level) is based on things like how many syllables the words have, and how long the sentences are.

But there are other things that make a text more approproate for an older audience or more difficult to read.

Archaic Language

Non-Linear Time Sequences

Misleading/Narratively Complex:
-unreliable narrator
-multiple narrators
-non-human narrators 
-multiple intertwined and apparently (for a time) unrelated plot lines

Figurative/Symbolic Text 
- allegorical
- symbolic

Resistant Texts—"texts written to deliberately resist easy meaning-making by readers"

I believe Lord of the Flies is symbolic, and probably has archaic language or makes references to life in England during WWII/Cold War that would likely not be familiar to students in the US today. eg saying a boy was "chapter chorister and head boy" doesn't give any information to a US high school student of today.

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