REFLECTIVE WRITING - KEY TECHNIQUES

Identify the technique used in the extract below:

The climber made it look impossibly easy to scale the high brick wall. He was clearly as strong as an ox.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Parenthesis

• Repetition

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She knew that she would feel better when she saw her friends and was able to let off steam. After all, laughter is the best medicine.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Short sentence

• Rhetorical question

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The alarm screamed loudly, urging him to get out of his bed and get ready for work.

• Simile

• List

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Repetition

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If a woman is tempted into having an extra slice of cake, don’t blame it on greed. Scientists have found that women’s brains react to food very differently –and much more strongly – than men’s.

• Simile

• Short sentence

• Parenthesis

• Repetition

• Metaphor

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A teenager who has at least one loving, caring, supportive and unselfish parent will, eventually cope and adjust to the challenges of adult life.

• List

• Repetition

• Rhetorical question

• Metaphor

• Simile

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So, just how personal is your personal computer? Personalising your PC is easy. You can ditch the bland background and get a proper pic in place.

• Simile

• List

• Rhetorical question

• Repetition

• Metaphor

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People only bother to learn to calculate stuff like forces, impact speeds and momentum to pass their science exams at school, right? Wrong.

• Repetition

• List

• Short sentence

• Rhetorical question

• Simile

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Think of Scottish sporting success and you’ll be thinking for a long time. There’s been the occasional, glorious spark in football, such as Celtic winning the European Cup in 1967, Archie Gemmill’s goal in 1978, or Aberdeen winning the Cup Winner’s Cup in 1983, but this is ancient history.

• Personification

• Short sentence

• Rhetorical question

• Repetition

• List

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For years now, my husband and I have slugged it out on whether or not it’s good to be scared by art. I’m still cross that I never got to see 'The Blair Witch Project' because he wouldn’t come and I didn’t (quite) dare go alone.

• List

• Repetition

• Parenthesis

• Short sentence

• Metaphor

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Apart from a bout of malaria, a box-jellyfish attack, several baboon raids, a lost passport and a mauling by a lion, the trip went off with surprisingly few mishaps. I was still glad to get home.

• List

• Repetition

• Short sentence

• Simile

• Metaphor