Answer:
This could be personification and a simile.
Explanation:
"Juanitas good driving prevented an accident." I think ..... verb is "to prevent" as you say. accident could be a noun and thus an object, possibly a direct object. verb "to drive" written as "driving" is, I think, a gerund (which is a verb used as a noun). maybe "helping verb" and "gerund" are similar ? I think that "an" is an article of the noun "accident". Definite would be "The accident.". Indefinite would be "an accident". I think....
So basically whats figurative language : Figurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner. Often figurative language involves the use of a metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, a euphemism, and pun.
B.) As a stickler about statistics, I was disturbed by Mr. Schlosser's cavalier manipulation of data, which produced some startling — and, frankly, unbelievable — "facts."
