In paragraph 5, the point of view briefly changes from Echo's point of view to Narcissus's point of view. This shift of the text's narrative point of view affect the text as a whole, because in Echo's point of view, it talks about how much she is in love with Narcissus.
I know this is late but the answer was The fire ate through the forest because in that sentence it was like the fire was living
I believe it would be “lifeless lump”
The kind of phrase the underlined words in the sentence is: A. <span>adverb phrase. As the name suggests, an adverb phrase functions the same way the adverb does. It modifies a adjective, verb, and adverb. In the sentence above, the phrase provides more details on the adjective "thousands". </span>