Quotes

Question 1

protective ball (technique)

Answer 1

‘I was lost. Slowly found myself.. hunching up into a protective ball’

visual imagery

Question 2

danger (technique)

Answer 2

‘there was danger everywhere and in everyone’

hyperbole

Question 3

robbers and killers (technique)

Answer 3

‘There were robbers and people who took children and even killers’

the polysyndeton

Question 4

offer tiny amount (technique)

Answer 4

‘they could only offer me a tiny amount, but it made all the difference because of their willingness to feed a stranger.’

conjunction ‘but’

Question 5

winking lights (technique)

Answer 5

there was something comforting about the little lights winking in the gathering dark. Through personifying the ‘little lights winking’,

, personification

Question 6

chipped away (technique)

Answer 6

each failure to find my home chipped away at the certainty of my memories’.

metaphor

Question 7

landmarks (technique)

Answer 7

how many times would I wonder if all the landmarks aligned only to be left with tired, sore eyes and the realisation that I was mistaken again?

rhetorical question

Question 8

lose and gain (technique)

Answer 8

a lot to lose’ and ‘so much to gain’

juxtaposition

Question 9

haystack (technique)

Answer 9

‘I reasoned that even if it took years, even decades, you could eventually sift completely through a haystack- the needle would have to show up if you persisted’

extended metaphor