What type of figurative language is this?

personification ?

Explanation:

personification, idiom, and alliteration

Explanation:

•personification because of "the soft mourning of the forest"

•idiom because of "sitting on one of our fallen friends"

•alliteration because of "on one of our"

alone =having no one else present.

they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

explanation:

if they were going to steal the answers that is simply because they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.