Which excerpt from “good country people” is the best example of figurative language?

a. the reason for her keeping them so long was that they were . . good country people.
b. if she don’t get there before the dust settles, you can bet she’s dead, that’s all.
c. she would make these statements, usually at the table, in a tone of gentle insistence as if no one held them but her.
d. it was hard for mrs. hopewell to realize that her child was thirty-two now and that for more than twenty years she had had only one leg.

D

Explanation:

I dont think that Mrs. Hopewell's daughter grew a leg after twenty years of not having one. I think that she means that she went from a child so dependent on her mother's support to an indepent woman.

malvolio only loves olivia because he thinks if they get married to olivia he will have a noble title, people to serve him, and fine clothes to wear. also he thinks if they get married he will have many expensive things, and he thinks he will be able to order toby around. malvolio only wants to be noble and boss people around he dose not really love olivia. but viola love for duke orsino is real she really loves orsino.

i think he will fail because he tried to get her to love him and she said oh, you are sick of self-love, malvolio. there is no slander in an allowed fool. so i think she knows what malvolio is trying to do. she knows that he only wants to marry her because he wants to be noble and boss people around so that it why i think she said oh, you are sick of self-love, malvolio. there is no slander in an allowed fool because she new he was selfish.