Good is an adjective, well is an adverb.
When you are talking about how you are doing (verb), you would use the word "well" (adverb) because it describes the verb.
The first one is an "idiom" / or, "idiomatic expression" ; that is: [to have] "tricks up [one's sleeve's]" .
The second one is "hyperbole" (gross exaggeration).
The third one is "personification" — but also "hyperbole" (gross exaggeration).
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Answer: "A White Heron" is set in the Maine woods, where Jewett's heroine Sylvia lives on her grandmother's farm. Though it is a "beautiful place to live in"5, the girl longs for more space, which she finds in the nature surrounding