Personification because it's saying the river knows as if it is a person or higher being.
The answers would be good and benefit because antonym means opposite, so what's the opposite of harm, well its good of course.
The similarities between the two of the stories is : they both lose their mother in the story
The difference was : In the end of the story, Phoebe's manage to get her mother back while sal's couldn't because she's dead
I feel like he is saying that he is living in the joy or love of what he has created but that is just my opinion the meaningful textual evidence to support your answer is: "lived in a paradise of my own creation"
That would be false, wouldn't it?
A mirage is an optical phenomenon
The word I can think of that best fits instead of "mirage" would be oasis, though I could be wrong.
