The answer would be b grain of the fabric is like grain of the wood. if you look at a plank of wood you see the lines going up and down it same thing really
The importance would be all the time and effort he put into it but know that he is dead he would have someone to take over
Personification- I'm not quite sure, but, "Is this a dagger which I see before me," appears to be personification. I could be wrong.
Apostrophe- None, that I know of.
Allusion- "I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."
Hyperbole- "The handle toward my hand? Come. let me clutch thee:--"
I would say that the intended meaning of that hyperbole is that the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the British government.
A related process is co articulation, where one segment influences another to produce an allophonic variation, such as vowels acquiring the feature nasal<span> before </span>nasal<span> consonants when the velum opens prematurely or becoming labialised as in "boot". </span>
