What is figurative language?

writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning
a technique in which something simultaneously represents itself and something else
words that trigger the imagination to remember by appealing to the five senses
a statement about an abstract idea expressed in a work of art

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened. joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations. b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v. represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty. c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Which of the following best describes a writing style authors use to convey a satirical tone?

Which sentence uses the present progressive tense of drink