Read these excerpts from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:
Then the twins remembered something that the grandmother spider had told them: "If ever you get caught in the cave, say to yourselves the word thain-mom, 'above my eyes.'" When the giant began to set fires around, the twins repeated the word thain-mom over and over and over to themselves, and the smoke remained above their eyes.
When Aho saw or heard or thought of something bad, she said the word zei-dl-bie, "frightful." It was the one word with which she confronted evil and the incomprehensible. . . . It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of the language upon ignorance and disorder.
Which sentence best explains how the personal narrative enhances the meaning of the mythical description?
A. It expands upon the myth by revealing that the word zei-dl-be is derived from thain-mom.
B. It supports the myth by showing that evil and ignorance are all around us.
C. It makes the myth concrete by revealing the power that people place on words.
D. It completes the myth by providing facts about the American landscape that the myth fails to include.

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The correct answer is: It makes the myth concrete by revealing the power that people place on words.
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The book "The Way to Rainy Mountain" by the writer N. Scott Momaday deals with the folklore of the Kiowa a Native American Tribe, including their myths and the history of the tribe. In the two excerpts presented here, myths are explained one in related to a giant and other to the evil and the incomprehensible. Additionally to this, in both excerpts the myth is presented in relation to some words probably used by the members of the tribe to confront the creatures of the myths, in this way, the readers do not only know about the creatures of the myths but they also learn the power of words for the Kiowa in the myths which supports the personal narrative used to describe the Kiowa myths and makes the myth concrete.