Imagination can overcome reason when for example a person is paranoid about someone or something and conjures up possible fearful situations or scenarios that could result from being in that situation or with such and such people when in fact the actual living of that situation is usually far less fearful than imagined but it can immobilize a person if he/she succumbs to their imagination.
Because she saw that Maria had a turtle tattoo on her neck.
It means the breeze moved the curtains lightly and it uses Personification :)
I believe it is personification because he is giving the sand the ability to stretch and to be alone which sand cannot do.
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