Register
Need help with English what is the sentence down below? Hyperbole, Metaphor, personification, Simile The ocean waves swallowed her up as it viciously tore through her small boat.
19.1k views
1 vote
Need help with English what is the sentence down below? Hyperbole, Metaphor, personification, Simile

The ocean waves swallowed her up as it viciously tore through her small boat.

User John Dorean
by
5.5k points

1 Answer

6 votes

This sentence is personification. Personification means that something non-human is given human qualities. Ocean waves can't "swallow" anything. They don't have a throat. Therefore this sentence gives the waves a human quality

Hope this helped!

~Just a girl in love with Shawn Mendes

User David Brown
by
5.5k points
Ask a Question
Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

5.7m questions

7.4m answers

Other Questions

An antecedent is a noun to which a preposition refers. True False
Read the passage from My Antonia by Willa Cather. My Antonia During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had known long ago
Examine Macbeth and Lady Macbeth after Duncan’s murder. In what ways are they alike and different?
15 POINTS!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!! I'M BEING TIMED!!!!! Categorize the given topics for a literary analysis essay as strong or weak topics. A. Methods for reading american poetry B. The setting for "The Most
Read the paragraph. Did you know that making a cake is as easy as 1-2-3-4? Before there were cake mixes, people baked their cakes from scratch. They often followed a simple recipe for a cake called the
Link Copied!