The moon experiences many changes throughout the story.
At first, the moon is a shimmering ivory figure.
She then becomes blue, veiny, and wrinkled.
Later, she starts to fade, and become see-through, and her eyes turn indigo.
She ends the story as a sparkly silver pile of embers.
A good strategy would be using context clues, use the words around the sentence to help figure out that word. <span />
Answer: an abandoned mental hospital
I would be able to tell you if you posted the passage. Anyways, I would say A is the answer.
Personification. Nature doesn’t technically work or build, so it is given human like quality here. The literary meaning is that nature is - powerful force of both creation and destruction.