It is an example of personification. A tree does not sing, but a person does. (Except for the person who wrote this answer). When an inanimate object like a tree does something a person can do, the inanimate object is being personified.
personification
Characterization is the literary technique of creating a vivid, realistic mental picture of a person.Techniques used in the creation of literary portraits include: details of behavior/habits (Dale would always scratch his nose when he was thinkin'.) , phrases unique to that particular character (Am I right, or are you wrong?) and telling preferrences (He began each morning with a butter and onion sandwich.)
The past participle of begin is begun and the past tense is began. For example:'I have just begun to study Italian.''I began to study Italian last week.'
Yes, for example: After a while Jim became restless and began to fiddle with objects on the desk.
To distend is to expand or swell. An example sentence would be: After he got hit in the jaw, it began to distend.
personification
The literary tragedy began at the Festival of Dionysus.
Poetics
In 2003
Poetics
the child gave a grin after having a super chocolate Sunday
post-modernism
Literary criticism began in ancient Greece, around the 4th century BCE. The philosopher Plato is credited with being one of the first to engage in systematic literary criticism.
she had these dreams and she wrote them down and began writing the twilight series
Modernism
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. She also began to write Midnight Sun, which is Twilight from Edward's point of view, but it's been put on hold indefinitely.
The series began on October 2, 1959 and ended on June 19, 1964 .