Question

"Everybody knows him. Dickon's wanderin' about everywhere. Th' very blackberries an' heatherbells knows him. I warrant th' foxes shows him where their cubs lies an' th' skylarks doesn't hide their nests from him." Which identifies and explains the type of language used in this passage? The language is figurative; the foxes do not actually lead Dickon to their nests. The language is figurative; foxes do not hide or protect their cubs. The language is figurative; skylarks do not have nests. The language is literal; foxes do not have cubs.

Answer 1

The correct answer here would be the first option.

The foxes definitively are not leading Dixon anywhere, it is just  a figure of speech, a figurative language that is used here. Figurative speech uses something like a metaphor to explain or show something by using something that resembles the thing being shown or explained. Here the it is shown that he is so well known that even a thing that even the foxes know him and trust him.