Which of the following sentences contains figurative language? his face was as red as an apple. i like apples more than oranges. her hair was red; apples are red too. oranges were his favorite fruit.

The answer is "his face was as red as an apple".

Figurative language is the one that uses figures of speech to express ideas, but not literally. For example, the boy is ready to go out and his mother says: "you better take an umbrella; it's raining cats and dogs out there". She is not meaning animals falling from the sky.

In this case, the speaker resorts to a SIMILE, which is an implicit comparison between two different things, actions, or feelings by using AS or LIKE (e.g. my mind is like an open window).

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.