Question

choose the sentence in this excerpt that contains the figure of speech called hed suggested everything: gold rims, the kind that curved round your ear inside the bridge. no, nothing would please her. \theyll always be sliding dow miss brill had wanted to shake her. the old people sat on the bench, still as statues. never mind, there was a crowd to watch. to and fro, in front of the flowerbeds and the band rotunda, the groups paraded, stopped to talk, to greet, to buy a handful of flowers from the who had his tray fixed to the railings.

Explanation:

To identify the sentence with a figure of speech, we analyze each sentence. The sentence "The old people sat on the bench, still as statues" uses a simile (a figure of speech that compares two things using "as" or "like") to compare the stillness of old people to statues.

Answer:

The old people sat on the bench, still as statues.