Previously, the height was 1.5 metres. Then the plant grew 15 centimetres. Unfortunately, we cannot just add 15 to 1.5 because metres and centimetres are different. We must convert centimetres into metres.
There are 100 cm in 1 m, so let's set up a proportion:
it means that the family woke up due to the sunlight coming through the bedroom windows. the use of "peered" in this sentence is the personification, as the sun can't really "peer."
since we cant see the passage, i can tell you what it is. an onomatopoeia is a sound made into a word. so words like bam, honk, and animal sounds are onomatopoeia's