Answer: The vegetable garden needs to be watered.
Step-by-step explanation:
The phrase “thirsty little vegetable garden” is an example of personification.
*Extra:
It’s making the vegetable garden seem like a human given that one quality of being human is the fact that we can be thirsty and drink water.
Of course, plants can “drink” water and they need it in order to live but “thirsty” is mostly a word used for humans. Plants can’t water themselves only rain and a human can truly “water” a garden.
So given this, when a person is thirsty they would want water right?; or show signs of being dehydrated. And in this case, the garden can be seen the same in this situation and we can use personification to show it.
• What does personification mean?
Personificarion is a type of figurative language.
It is used by writers to give non-human things human qualities for creative, or dramatizing purposes.
• Examples of personification:
• “The wind howled in the night.”
In this case, wind can not howl, only humans can. But, we can use personification to make it seem more dramatic.
The meaning of this sentence means the wind was very loud or powerful.
• “The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.”
Rain can’t kiss you right? That’s a human characteristic. In this case it means the rain felt soft on the persons cheek.
• Why are the other answers most likely incorrect?
None of the other answers even mention the vegetable garden and is highly irrelevant.
What is figurative language?
Words and sentences that doesn’t have a normal everyday literal meaning and is used to be dramatic or creative which can make a story or text more interesting to a reader.
• What did the question mean by “meaning”
Well, they literally mean the definition of the phrase “a thirsty little vegetable garden”.