Anyone good at english? I need help like super now

KierstyPants
KierstyPants Posts: 468 Member
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What type of literary term is 'Roaring with anger'
you know, like personification , simile, blah blah
doing a project, thanks.
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  • Jessamin
    Jessamin Posts: 338 Member
    I'd go with onomatopoeia myself.
  • JDNOX
    JDNOX Posts: 619
    Man i am so bad at english. I tried to google it but not luck. Sorry
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    An Idiom dear
  • cherryObebe
    cherryObebe Posts: 189
    I agree with Onomatopoeia because of the word 'roaring'.
  • janelle1993
    janelle1993 Posts: 128
    If it is an object that the sentence is talking about like the ocean was roaring with anger than it's personification because an inanimated object is given a humanistic or lively quality! Hope I helped!! :)
  • significance
    significance Posts: 436 Member
    "Roaring" is an onomatopeia (the word sounds a bit like a lion's roar), but I don't think that's what they are looking for. Unless he is actually, literally making a roaring sound, it's a metaphor.
  • sara_m83
    sara_m83 Posts: 545 Member
    It's a metaphor because you are not literally roaring.
  • sara_m83
    sara_m83 Posts: 545 Member
    If it is an object that the sentence is talking about like the ocean was roaring with anger than it's personification because an inanimated object is given a humanistic or lively quality! Hope I helped!! :)

    It would be personification portrayed through the use of metaphor.
  • ExYoYoGirl
    ExYoYoGirl Posts: 83
    I'd go with onomatopoeia myself.

    Agree, depending on who or what is doing the roaring
  • cethomas91
    cethomas91 Posts: 3 Member
    Janelle1993 is right! If an inanimate object is being brought to life (ie: the wind roared with anger) then it is personification. Otherwise, it is a metaphor!!
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    I'd go with onomatopoeia myself.

    Agree, depending on who or what is doing the roaring

    No. An onomatopoeia is a word pronounced like it sounds. The question was not about the word "roar" so I'm going to reject this answer.

    I'd call "roaring with laughter":

    hyperbole.
  • kitkatkait
    kitkatkait Posts: 87 Member
    totally a metaphor, but it's sort of hidden. it's DIRECTLY comparing the "anger" to a roaring sound (like that of a large animal). The word "roar" is an onomatopoeia, too, but I would consider that secondary to the metaphor itself.
  • McKayMachina
    McKayMachina Posts: 2,670 Member
    This might help:

    http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

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