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

a. the reason for her keeping them so long was that they 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.