What is outrages splutter?
I told Quigley that she thought Croke Park Stadium should be turned into a shopping center, and watched her try to decipher his outraged splutter.
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I assume that you have looked up the two words, so I will address the phrase. It is an example of the literary device of hypallage, the application of a word to another word instead of the one to which it properly belongs. Quigley was outraged.
- I assume that you have looked up the two words, so I will address the phrase.
- It is an example of the literary device of hypallage, the application of a word to another word instead of the one to which it properly belongs.
- Quigley was outraged.
- It was not his splutter that was outraged.
- But where else can you put "outraged" in that sentence?
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I assume that you have looked up the two words, so I will address the phrase. It is an example of the literary device of hypallage, the application of a word to another word instead of the one to which it properly belongs. Quigley was outraged. It was not his splutter that was outraged. But where else can you put "outraged" in that sentence? "Splutter of outrage"? The writer made the right cho
0A "splutter" is a sort of choking or spitting noise that someone makes when they are e.g. very angry, in this case "outraged", and cannot properly form words.
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