In the <em>Golden Cat</em>, “And the brown hay smiles back at him” is an example of the personification that is used to give human-like emotions of smiling at a bale of hay. In the <em>Cat and the Moon</em>, “Maybe the moon may learn” is also another example of the use of personification by giving human features of learning to the moon.
No, it is false that traditional grammar is still completely based on the Latin model, since many of the ways in which grammar has shifted have noting to do with the original Latin forms.
