What is the effect of the personification in this excerpt from the passage?

It's just you and me now, diving board. I've reached your brink, eddies swirling in the nebulous void beneath you, and all I can hear is a piercing ring. You're just staring at me, maybe through me. Can I ask you something? Do you like orange cream ice pops?


It helps stress the idea that the anxious narrator views the diving board as an adversary.

It emphasizes the difficulty of diving from a high platform.

It seems to increase the probability that the narrator will perform an unsuccessful dive.

It helps explain the challenges the narrator faces in learning to dive.