B I think because of how it is nosy
I'm learning about this at school at the minute, I think it might be a metaphor, because a community can't actually be drenched in fear. It is not personification because it is not making anything that shouldn't be real, real.
Sorry if that didn't make sense, I'm just trying to get my point across of how I think that it is a metaphor. ☺
The primary change of focus is change of mood. Mainly because when she found out they chose her everyone changed from the "gloom" to happiness.<span> </span>
Explicit goes in the blank. :)