marshes like a hare, beside herself with laughter, and stubbornly clinging to the crimson tree that

had made all the trouble”

Is saying that the “tree that had made all the trouble” a personification??? because it’s saying the tree cause trouble but is the a exact human characterisitc????

ALSO

“and the creaking of the big cotton woods about the house seemed to say winter had come”

Is the human characteristic the cotton woods “saying” or is it not personification because it was the creaking that made it understandable that winter had come??

Need somebody skilled in english to answer please!