Question

Which sentence from the passage above contains figurative language?
OA. "My grandma said that old dogs have bad attitudes."
OB. "He was probably grumpy because he was older than dirt."
OC. "He wasn't the kind of dog that would save your life."
OD. "However, he was a good dog."

Answer 1

Answer:

B. "He was probably grumpy because he was older than dirt."

Explanation:

In the passage above, an idiomatic expression is used when the speaker used the phrase, 'older than dirt'. An idiom is a phrase that is not meant to be be interpreted literally with the individual words used although there are few instances where this may occur.

The term 'older than dirt' means that a person or animal is very old. It was originally coined from the dirt found at the surface of the earth, believed to have existed for thousands of years.