Answer: One good example from this paragraph is in the second sentence: "It's [the house] small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath." Here the windows are personified (given human qualities). after all, windows don't really need to breathe.
Answer:
in the small hours of the night, with the sun drawing near, I stared out the window, while trifling with the locket on my neck, without a doubt it was the most beautiful item I had.
Explanation:
a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g. oar-steed = ship.
There is no link or nothing connected.
