The sun is being spoken of as a person in this sentence. It's called and anthropomorphism. Obviously the sun doesn't lie down anywhere, and if you cross over the mountain you won't find it. It's a picturesque way of describing what a sunset looks like.
In this sentence, the sun is being personified by suggesting that is laying down like a person would. Personification is giving human qualities or actions to non-human entities.
She quickly hid behind the bushes to avoid being seen.
No. For some reason, seasons are not capitalized, except if the season is being personified, for example, in poetry. This is something of a departure from years ago, when seasons were given capitals, but this trend has shifted in the last couple of decades.
He made a snide remark about her outfit, causing her to feel self-conscious.
No, the sentence should be: "She dislikes being lied to." This is the correct way to express that someone doesn't like being lied to.
"Is" can function as both a linking verb and an auxiliary verb. As a linking verb, it connects the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, typically describing a state of being. For example, in the sentence "He is happy," "is" is a linking verb connecting "he" to "happy."
Mountain
The flower is being personified. It is taking on human emotions.
i forgot
The sad waters are being personified in this sentence. They are given human qualities by describing them as sad.
To me, what is being personified is a living Gremlin named "Horrifically Bad Prose".
Setting sun
The sun is being personified as it is given human-like qualities of being able to "beat down" on the people walking through the desert.
Hours crawling is being personified.
In this sentence, the wind is being personified. Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to something non-human, in this case, the wind is described as having fingers and the ability to grip Sheila in a frigid manner.
Time crawled
Dark and gloomy
The wind. The wind is given human features -- gripped and finger tips