I think it’s C but check in on that
I would say persistence.<span>Perseverance</span> is when you keep going even when knocked down, and persistence is pretty much the constant effort put into something.
It's d. <span>Weeks of bottled-up tensions would be released in a few minutes of orgiastic violence, men screaming and shouting obscenities above the explosions of grenades and the rapid, rippling bursts of automatic rifles.</span>
Maybe he meant that for him is hard to write or create a realistic idea about what to write and how.