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. Mr. Freeman was a good farmer but that his wife was the nosiest woman ever to walk the earth. She would make these statements, usually at the table, in a tone of gentle insistence as if no one held them but her. Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people’s in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
