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What figure of speech is represented in the sentence, "The car engine coughed and wheezed"?

Question #44657. Asked by vpham.

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rlaj
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I am no English expert but I believe that would be a metaphor.

Feb 25 2004, 3:43 PM
sequoianoir
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anthropomorphism

Feb 25 2004, 3:47 PM
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rlaj
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Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman beings or things. How is it you know so much DB?

Feb 25 2004, 3:55 PM
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MaggieG
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He swallowed a dictionary. Followed, for dessert, by an extremely large helping of encyclopaedia. I know these things. My daughter, as a toddler, ate a book called Mr Chatterbox. She hasn't stopped talking since.

Feb 25 2004, 4:24 PM
DogRL
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Personification is a type of metaphor and this one's got onomatopoeia to boot.

Feb 25 2004, 5:04 PM
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