English GCSE, Paper 2 Question 3, Touching the void extract

How does the writer use language to describe how he feels.
The terrible sliding stopped, and I hung silently against the slope. Three faint tugs trembled the taut rope, and I hopped up on to my leg. A wave of nausea and pain swept over me. I was glad of the freezing blasts of snow biting into my face. My head cleared as I waited for the burning to subside from my knee. Several times I had felt it twist sideways when my boot snagged. There would be a flare of agony as the knee kinked back, and parts within the joint seemed to shear past each other with a sickening gristly crunch. I had barely ceased sobbing before my boot snagged again. At the end my leg shook uncontrollably. I tried to stop it shaking, but the harder I tried, the more it shook. I pressed my face into the snow, gritted my teeth, and waited. At last it eased.

What year is this extract?

What year is this extract?

Hi do you know what language technique would " freezing blasts of snow biting into my face" be ?

its personification I believe

How does the writer use language to describe how he feels.
The terrible sliding stopped, and I hung silently against the slope. Three faint tugs trembled the taut rope, and I hopped up on to my leg. A wave of nausea and pain swept over me. I was glad of the freezing blasts of snow biting into my face. My head cleared as I waited for the burning to subside from my knee. Several times I had felt it twist sideways when my boot snagged. There would be a flare of agony as the knee kinked back, and parts within the joint seemed to shear past each other with a sickening gristly crunch. I had barely ceased sobbing before my boot snagged again. At the end my leg shook uncontrollably. I tried to stop it shaking, but the harder I tried, the more it shook. I pressed my face into the snow, gritted my teeth, and waited. At last it eased.

its personification I believe

What is the personification

snow biting. Snow can't actually bite, but the writer compared the cold of the snow to the human action of biting.

I have that test tommorow too lol, is there an english genius out there who is going to come save us. I'm annotataing the text now
I don't think its that bad of a text to get techniques from

It also seems to be like a semantic field of his loss of control. his leg shook uncontrollably and he repeatedly said "i tried"

oooo yes i’m going to use that thank you also if u want this info i’m going to reinforce the semantic field of pain with the personification (freezing blasts of snow) to show how cold it acc was but he says he was glad which shows he is in immense/extreme and perhaps confused with his surroundings

There are also contrasts between the freezing wind and him still burning