Do I like the novel that I chose to read?
the awnser is Gothic horror
Animalification is the figurative language. It is used when saying how the fog comes in on little cat feet. Then it goes on by saying it is sitting down and looking over something. If animalification is not an option then it is personification, as animalification is a more narrowed down term of the aforementioned used to describe the actions of an animal as applied to the inanimate object.
you need the hyphen only if the two words are functioning together as an adjective before the the noun they're describing.