“The house was as still as still, but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch-scratch in the world.”
Explanation:
Personification, though a figure of speech, is when you give an object or animal certain qualities and abilities that can be found only in human beings. Good writers try to use this figure of speech to bring inanimate things to life.
From the sentences of "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" shown in the multichoice section, option A is the answer because House was talked about as if it was human.
