Life of Pi<span> even flirts with nonfiction genres. The Author's Note, for example, claims that the story of Piscine Molitor Patel is a true story that the author, Yann Martel, heard while backpacking through Pondicherry, and the novel, with its first-person narrator, is structured as a memoir.</span>
In my opinion, I think it is A.
Hope helps-Aparri
I believe it is personification because he is giving the sand the ability to stretch and to be alone which sand cannot do.