Which dictionary entry is the best definition for the word flood in this passage?

after jasmine told her class about the mouse with two tails, she had to answer a flood of questions from her classmates.
a) flood- (n) an abundance, a rush
b) flood- (v) to overflow, to fill-up
c) flood- (adj) a kind of light bulb
d) flood-(n) a downpour, a great deal of water

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced