The sentence 'The thunder roared angrily across the sky' is an example of
ASimile
BPersonificationCORRECT
CEuphemism
DOxymoron
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Personification is the figure of speech in which human qualities or emotions are attributed to non-human things or abstract ideas. In this sentence, thunder is given the human quality of roaring 'angrily', which is a human emotion. This makes the sentence an example of personification.
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