It is c because it will have a more positive connotation.
No.
personification is when you give an inhuman object human abilities.
for example: the thorn poked me
I think it's emotional meaning
<span>The “fall of the House of Usher” was written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1839 in a magazine. At that time, his kind of literature was not popular, the Gothic movement started in England and it was brought to America by him. In America, the literature style was more moralistic so his stories were thought to cause an emotional effect. He introduced the idea of short stories, he argued that a story was meant to be read at one sitting. </span>
