Answer:
I kinda feel like its option B but I might be wrong
B) it provides comic relief at a tense moment
<em>Shady Plot</em> is a horror story written by Elsie Brown. The main character is writer named John Hallock who wants to write a ghost story. The writer thinks that he cannot write a good horror story, but stories himself just find him. At one point in the story, when he tries to write and starts speaking with himself, someone answers to him. This person later appears to be a woman who wants to help Hallock to write a ghost story. She appeared in bits and pieces because she was a ghost.
The answer is personification, I believe.
It highlights how the children have not entirely left behind their childish fears
