<span>"Notes of a Native Son" is actually a book that was written by James Baldwin and based on the excerpt taken from this book, the statement that best explains how the use of figurative language shows the meaning of this excerpt is option B. Hope this answers your question.</span>
The story tells of a woman reacting to her husband's death. She must consider many years of a relationship, and their time together is not really the story of an hour.
“Spring is like a perhaps hand” uses personification and simile. Simile
compares two things with the use of “like” or “as”; while personification gives
human attributes to inanimate objects. In poem's title the simile can be
expressed as "spring is like a hand;" while the personification is giving spring
a “hand” which is a part of the human body that is able to move or arrange things.
To get across the point that he is a lesser than those he speaks to.
