The barber Ivan Jakovlevitch finds Major Kovaloff's nose in his bread. It happens all of a sudden, without any introduction, on a usual morning. What makes this occurrence even weirder is the fact that he recognizes the nose, as if all the noses in this world aren't similar, and instantly starts quarrelling with his wife, who accuses him of having chopped off a customer's nose.
Answer:
Dead
Explanation:
He is just stating that he can hear the old mans heart, as is it were drums beating in his ear.
Figurative language is a language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning. Writers can use figurative language to make their work more interesting or more dramatic than literal language which simply states facts.