Answer:
"Bright flashes of lightning" are given human qualities or just "lightning" as dancing is something humans do. The sentence pretty much means that the flashes of lightning were moving and flashing in the sky, just like humans dancing.
Explanation:
The answer is A. It creates the quality of the oral tradition
The reason being that by the wording of this excerpt the author is trying to convey a conversational tone in which the reader can interact with the event that is about to unfold. The informal language actually creates a conversational tone that common with the oral tradition.
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