He will get a job, so it was about business
Answer:
Personification, if you're talking about figurative language.
Explanation:
Personification is a literary device that gives human-like qualities to something like an inanimate object, idea, or substance that doesn't have one in real life. In this case, silence, the subject of the sentence, cannot physically rule over the land. It can only do so figuratively and with a different meaning. In this phrase, silence "reigned" over the land means that the environment being described was very quiet.
The characteristic that Ralph shows is his bravery as he is defending Piggy against such great numbers ( the entire tribe ).