B.
The phrase "whistle-like" should be separated by a hyphen. <span />
Based on the themes of believe's and imagination through, a child could think of it as realism... The book begins of the night of Christmas Eve.
I believe it is personification because he is giving the sand the ability to stretch and to be alone which sand cannot do.
<span>“Metonymy” is best defined as a figure of speech in which </span>one noun is substituted for another with which it is closely associated