The answer is c I believe ! good luck in the test or whatever your assessment is
Personification because it's saying the river knows as if it is a person or higher being.
Puzzlement is the correct answer
The correct answer is definitely the historical method.
You should observe words and their usage as it developed throughout history.
The beam of wood looks like a club or a a staff. It looks like a large olive tree or like a mast of a ship with twenty oars (a very big mast).
Hope this helps :)
