As it is used in "a white heron," the phrase "the lonely house" is select all that apply.

a simile that compares a house to a person
a metaphor for the isolation of the setting
personification that gives the house human traits
a simile that compares the house to sylvia

C) personification that gives the house human traits.

Explanation:  personification is a figure of speech that consists in giving human characteristics to non human objects (or animals). In the given phrase from "A White Heron" we can see an example of the use of personification, because it says that the house (a non human object) is lonely (a human characteristic), in a literal way, we know that the house isn't able to feel loneliness.

remember, the goal of an adjective clause is to add more information to a noun or a pronoun. as you can see from the examples above, you can add information by including a longer adjective clause or tighten up a sentence by turning the adjective clause into an adjective phrase.