Notes

Let's talk about a haunted house text and examine deeply.
"A Haunted House" is a short short story in the fantasy genre about a ghost couple and a living couple occupying the same dwelling.
A Haunted House was published in 1943.
The action takes place in a coastal region of Southeastern England at a house in an unidentified locale where there is a farm. The time is the late nineteenth century or the early twentieth century.
There are two characters in the story. First one is living couple. Living couple is current occupants of a house. Second one is ghost couple. Ghost couple is past occupants of the house.
The living man and woman tell the story in first-person point of view, reporting the conversation and activity of the ghost couple.
The tone is playful and lighthearted. The reader realizes that the ghosts—who are conducting a search—pose no threat to the living couple.
The climax occurs at the end of the story, when the narration reveals that the treasure is "the light in the heart"—love.
Now let's examine the figures of speech.
She uses metaphor in the story: Death was the glass. She mentions comparison of death to the glass. "Safe, safe, safe," the pulse of the house beat gladly. She mentions comparison of the house to a beating heart. Moonbeams splash and spill wildly in the rain. She mentions comparison of moonbeams to liquid.
She uses alliteration in the story: The wind drives straightly; the flame stoops slightly. The wind falls, the rain slides silver down the glass.
'’Kisses without numbers '' is a hyperbole.
She uses onomatopoeia here: The hum of the threshing machine.
There is paradox here: From the deepest wells of silence the wood pigeon drew its bubble of sound. She wants to say the bird's sound is coming from the silence.
To sum up, the narration reveals that it is the rediscovery of the places in and around the house where the ghosts spent little moments expressing their love for each other. The female ghost says, "Here, sleeping; in the garden reading; laughing, rolling apples in the loft. Here we left our treasure­."
After an encounter with the ghost couple in their bedroom, the living couple realize what the ghosts are seeking.
in the second sentence of the story, the phrase "hand in hand" hints that the ghosts are in love. The author then leads the reader to believe that the story is about finding a treasure, perhaps gold or money. In fact, the story is about treasure—the treasure of love. As the ghosts wander about the house, they are rediscovering places full of memories of their love for each other.