Circulatory is the answer you're looking for.
Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds the same as it’s meaning. The specific examples from this passage are rattling, clatter, hammer, muffled drumming.
Onomatopoeia can be used to create sensory details and allow the reader to better visualize (or in this case hear) the setting.
I believe the best answer is D. The discrepancy between what is expected and what really happens as with dramatic irony, this could be quoted as a definition. Dramatic irony is when a reader expects one thing to happen, but something else happens, or when the reader knows something will happen but the character does not.
A) Which
Which is the right answer because it makes more sense to use it rather than using where which makes no sense. ;)