The answer would be "descriptive" words, or if you're looking for a more broad answer, it would be "imagery". :)
Because conflict makes a story interesting. Nobody wants to hear a boring story about how somebody went to the store and bought tomatoes because that's an every day thing you don't need to hear about this because chances are you have done it. So authors use conflict to keep you on the edge of your seat. Some are better at this than others. There are different types of conflict man vs man man vs nature man v self man vs society. But these conflicts are the basis for almost every interesting story written
The chest, on that day of moving, had been set in the new attic, which was smaller than the other, and less frightening, perhaps because gaps in the cedar-shingled roof let dabs of daylight in. When the roof was being repaired, the whole space was thrown open to the weather. This is the answer.
To ask someone earnestly or to treat someone in a specified manner
From everything I could find it was Carl himself, But if you heard the poem online somewhere it could've been anywhere. Where did you hear it?
