Which excerpt from “good country people” is the best example of figurative language? the reason for her keeping them so long was that they were . . good country people. if she don’t get there before the dust settles, you can bet she’s dead, that’s all. she would make these statements, usually at the table, in a tone of gentle insistence as if no one held them but her. 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.

Mary Flannery O’Connor was an American writer, she wrote two important novels, “Wise Blood” and “The Violent Bear it Away”, and many short stories.

The “Good Country People” tells the story of Mrs. Hopewell and her farm in a rural area of Georgia along with her daughter who lost a leg in an accident since her childhood.

In her novel “Good Country People” Mary Flannery O’Connor uses irony and a finely controlled comic sense to reveal the world as it is, kind of crude yet comical.

The figurative Language is expressed by: Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Hyperbole, and Symbolism.

The sentence that best describes the use of figurative language from excerpt is:

"If she don’t get there before the dust settles, you can bet she’s dead, that’s all."

and the specific figurative language used is: Personification.

B. If she don’t get there before the dust settles, you can bet she’s dead, that’s all.

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