I would try B since most people have read her early works
Answer:
it intensifies the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration.
Explanation:
for example “…its crackling roots blazed and hissed – as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens – that's the iron's strength – so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake.”
True, you want them to understand you as easily as possible and they will not know slang, etc. if they speak little english