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  • I feel like a million bucks
    Hyperbole
  • Lightning danced across the sky.
    Personification
  • What two techniques are used here? The tree felt smooth like sandstone.
    Tactile/Kinaesthetic Imagery and Simile.
  • Short, sharp sentences are called what?
    Truncated sentences
  • What is it called when words or phrases are repeated at the beginning of successive clauses?
    Anaphora
  • What does a suitcase symbolise?
    Travel
  • The sweet aroma of the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies wafted from the kitchen to the living room, causing Greg’s stomach to rumble.
    Olfactory Imagery
  • The coolness of the fresh sheets.
    Tactile/Kinaesthetic Imagery
  • Her brain functioned at the rate of a computer.
    Metaphor
  • A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it is two-tired.
    Pun
  • He was as quiet as a mouse.
    Simile
  • What do white doves symbolise?
    Peace
  • What is it called when words or phrases are repeated at the end of successive clauses?
    Epistrophe
  • Her eyes were diamonds.
    Metaphor
  • The duck said to the bartender, put it on my bill.
    Pun
  • shush, honk, beep
    Onomatopoeia
  • The great clock strikes twelve, the chimes cutting through the noisy hustle and bustle of the city
    Auditory Imagery
  • Peter Piper picked a pot of pickled peppers.
    Alliteration
  • The sweet fragrance of honeysuckle always reminded Jenny of her mother's perfume.
    Olfactory Imagery
  • My teacher is a dragon.
    Metaphor
  • The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street.
    Repetition
  • The warm doughnut tasted sweet with hints of vanilla and strawberry.
    Gustatory Imagery
  • What two techniques are used here? The car coughed, hacked, and spluttered.
    Personification and Onomatopoeia
  • What two techniques are used here? She had hair as golden as the sunrise
    Simile and Visual Imagery
  • The incessant honks of impatient drivers fill my ears whilst the faint melody from the guitar of a street busker sounds in the distance.
    Auditory Imagery
  • What do red roses symbolise?
    Love/Romance
  • Oh my god, I haven't seen you in a million years!
    Hyperbole
  • His brothers fight like cats and dogs.
    Simile
  • As cold as ice.
    Simile
  • The tree spread its gigantic, sun-flecked shoulders.
    Visual Imagery
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