Question

Which sentence contains figurative language?



In North Carolina, pine trees grow very tall.


The Florida flowers were shy children who ducked their heads.


Vermont maple trees produce large amounts of syrup.


The Arizona desert contains many green cacti.

Answer 1

The Florida flowers were shy children who ducked their heads.

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the sentence that contains figurative language is the following one: The Florida flowers were shy children who ducked their heads.

The figure of speech used here is personification. Personification is a figure of speech by which, an idea or an animal, is given human characteristics. Therefore, the non-human objects are described in such a way that we feel that they have the ability to act like human beings. In this case, the flowers are described as "shy".