In the sentence "The sun lay down behind the mountains," the sun is being personified. Personification is a literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human entities. In this case, the sun is given the human-like action of laying down, which is not something the sun can physically do.
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.
the girls behind me are being snide about my new pink jacket
There was a lot of back biting and finger pointing in the classroom today.
A sentence with "being" in the simple past tense would be: "She was being polite at the party yesterday." In this sentence, "was" is the past tense of "is," and "being" is the present participle form of the verb "be" indicating an action that was happening in the past.
Mountain
The flower is being personified. It is taking on human emotions.
The setting sun is being personified in this sentence, as it is given human-like qualities by "telling" the speaker that it is time to head to camp.
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".
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.
The wind. The wind is given human features -- gripped and finger tips
Time crawled
The chainsaw is being personified. The act of "singing its deadly song" gives the inanimate object human-like qualities by suggesting it has the ability to produce sound and evoke emotions through its operation.