Answer:
1. Hold: <u><em>grasp, carry, or support with one's hands.</em></u>
2. Evaluated: <u><em>to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually by careful appraisal and study</em></u>.
3. Reef: <u><em>ridge of jagged rock, coral, or sand just above or below the surface of the sea.</em></u>
4. Pinnacle: <u><em>the most successful point; the culmination.</em></u>
5. Synopsis:<em> </em><u><em>a brief summary or general survey of something.</em></u>
6. Encampment: <u><em>an act or instance of encamping; lodgment in a camp.</em></u>
Personification definition:
1) the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
I am sorry that i couldn't give you examples I couldn't find a copy of the short story. But hopefully the defenition helps.
I believe C) describing what happens during and after a flood.
