After doing a close reading, why should you analyze the figurative language in a text? to reveal the author's background
to reveal hidden meanings
to understand characterization
to understand the setting
to understand the tone

The correct answer is B. To reveal hidden meanings

Explanation:

In texts, figurative language refers to statements, expressions, and phrases that do not use words according to their literal meaning, but the language is used to represent non-conventional and complex meanings. This can be found in many texts through figures of speech such as simile, personification, metaphor, hyperbole, etc that need to be analyzed by the reader to be understood.

Due to this, after close or thoughtful reading the reader should analyze the figurative language to understand completely the text and the hidden or complex meanings the author wants to convey by using non-literal or figurative language. Thus, the reason to analyze figurative language is to reveal hidden meanings.

the answer should be:

the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.