QUESTION-ANSWERS: NINE GOLD MEDALS

 

NINE GOLD MEDALS

Determined - Poised - Tautology

Pistol exploded - Onomatopoeia 

Stumble - staggered - Tautology, alliteration, Climax 

Cry of frustration - Onomatopoeia 

Frustration and anguish - Tautology 

Dashed in the dirt - Alliteration 

Standing here telling the story - Alliteration, Climax

Lifted the lad - Alliteration 

Nine runners joined hands - Climax

One hundred metres reduced to a walk - anticlimax

Special Olympics - Pun  

Holding hands still - Alliteration, Inversion 

Still holding hands 

Smiling faces - transferred epithets 

Banner - personification

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Justify the significance of the following lines:

One by one they turned round and came back to help him

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The LITTLE MATCH GIRL

Wind whistled through them - Onomatopoeia and personification

The bricks became transparent like gauge - hyperbole and simile

 A thousand matchsticks - hyperbole

 Out went the match - Inversion 

The match went out

So bright and shining - Tautology 

Kind and loving - Tautology

 Vanish like the warm stove - simile and imagery

 Brighter than broad daylight - simile and hyperbole

Grandmother embraced and took the little girl - ironical and euphemism

 Rosy cheeks, smiling lips - metaphor

The dawn of new year - personification