The correct answer is B). Figurative language can reveal new or predictable meaning when words are used in nonliteral comparisons.
In the figurative language, a word expresses an idea regarding another, appealing to a similarity real or imaginary. This form of communication is opposite to literal expressions in which the words have a meaning that defines its exact meaning.
For example: in figurative language you can say “the room smells like a pigsty after the guy’s party” (by this sentence I mean that the room is smelly in a nasty form) after a party of young men, who scornfully are compared with pigs (due to their behavior or lack of cleanliness). If it were literal language would mean that the room is filled with pigs, and it smells so bad, due to their presence; the presence of men is incidental and not related with the smell of the room.
The other options A: real or unexpected, C: ancient or unexpected and D: deep-rooted or longstanding meanings, do not apply because figurative language necessarily needs to be known into the context where its elaborated, to the person who develops it and to the person who listens to it. The cultural meaning of the word or the hermeneutics of where it is used (technic or method through which a text is interpreted) is necessary to find out the meaning attributed to the phrase correctly.
The answer is : Figurative language can reveal or unexpected meaning when the words are used in nonliteral comparison!
