What does it mean?
What does it mean? 2
Explain the effect.
Name the technique
Name the technique 2
100
Humiliating
Embarrassing / Shameful 
100
Vast
Large
100
The city's streets were a maze. 
The city's streets were hard to follow / cause you to get lost / not know where you're going.
100
The microwave bleeped three times to tell me my noodles were ready. 
Onomatopoeia 
100
The sky poured sad tears down on the earth. 
Personification 
200
over-the-top
Over-dramatic / too much / not realistic 
200
surging
flowing or pushing (fast / forcefully) 
200
When she said those words to him, he felt as though his heart had been punctured like a deflating bike wheel. 
Her words made him feel sad / terrible / disappointed / in pain. 
200
Hear the mellow wedding bells. 
Assonance
200
The lake glittered like the stars at midnight. 
Simile
300
contracted
squeezed / pulled inward 
300
exposed
revealed
300
The gears grated angrily; then, I heard the grinding of metal against metal.

(Alliteration of "g")

Harsh effect / unsettling effect / painful sound / etc. 
300
A device in a story or film where events from early in a character's life are re-visited. 
Flashback 
300
Softly, the snake slipped without notice into the salty water. 
Alliteration
400
overwhelmed
emotions are very strong (too strong) 
400
feat
achievement / accomplishment 
400
The breeze sang sweetly in my ear as I walked through the cherry blossom trees. 

(Effect of personification)

The effect is to make the breeze sound like is being caring, friendly, gentle, soothing. 
400
The part of the story in which events change in direction. 
Turning point. 
400
I feel like I haven't seen you for a million years!
Hyperbole
500
Inevitable
Can't stop it from happening. 
500
pseudonym
A false name. 
500
I would kill for a good night's sleep. 

(The effect of the hyperbole) 

To emphasise that the speaker wants sleep so badly that he or she would go to great lengths to get it / do things he or she normally would never consider. 
500
I dashed down the stairs, dashed out the front door and dashed round the corner to my neighbour's house. 
Repetition. 
500

“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn’t ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.” -Candy, Of Mice and  Men.

(Later, George feels he must shoot Lennie himself, not let the someone else do it instead of him.)

Foreshadowing
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