The answer is "Vanilla" it goes with everything. (Cake, Root Beer, etc).
She is speaking about times in which man becomes most desperate that in times where one is attacked, hurt or in a position from which something awful may occur they become their most powerful. This can be related to times where you struggled and found strength within yourself to do what you thought was impossible.
"He's running faster than the wind."
Simple because we understand it the most
The answer is A personification because the author is giving a human characteristic to a non human object.
Good luck! Hope this helped.
