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Horror Escape room

Karen Field

Created on September 18, 2025

Language Techniques

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Language Techniques...

Horror Escape room

START

Introduction

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

Inventory

01

What language technique is... "the stairs groaned as he crept up them"

Personification

Metaphor

Hyperbole

02

What is alliteration?

The same sound at the start of a series of words

Saying the same word or phrase more than once

A comparison using like or as

03

Which word is an onomatopoeia?

Hunch

Cackle

Slump

04

"Branches clattered like skeleton bones" is...

Metaphor

Simile

Oxymoron

This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

01

Which of these is not a language technique?

Panoramic

Metaphor

Oxymoron

Hyperbole

02

What language techniques is... "ghostly ghouls groaned"

Allieration

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

03

A hyperbole is...

A series of words starting with the same letter

A word that sounds like it's meaning

Two contradictory words that are combined

Exaggeration

04

"I was so scared, my heart almost leapt out of my chest!"is a...

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Onomatopoeia

04

"the eerie fog crept through the cemetery" is an example of what language technique?

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Onomatopoeia

You found a secret message

♪♬ø

Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

01

...Keep playing

02

...One more

03

Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

♪♬ø

Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

224

Enter the secret code

Code

"The living dead" is an example of what language technique?

01

Personification

Oxymoron

Simile

What does the S in SHAMPOO stand for?

02

Semi-colon

Scary

Simile

"A whisper that chills you to the bone"Is an example of what language technique?

03

Metaphor

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

Congratulations

You have recovered all the memories of the ghost! Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Are you sure you want to exit?

You will lose all progress made so far...

Back

Exit

Oh, no. You failed...

Inventory

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