Tossing their heads in sprightly dance is personification (giving a nonhuman thing human-like traits) so this is your answer. None of the others options are in the poem anyways even though all the other options are figurative language as well.
Allusion, which is a figure of speech<span> in which you covertly or indirectly refer to an object or circumstance, like the analogy between a disease and the spread of happiness.</span>
Still wants to be a part of human society
The statement that BEST describes the effect of this choice is <u>A It suggests that the revelation was too shocking to describe in words.</u>
According to the given excerpt, the author talks about the nature of the minister’s secret affliction, however, he does not reveal it to the readers, but reveals it to the townspeople.
He says that it is irrelevant to describe the revelation which suggests that the <u>revelation was too shocking to describe in words.</u>
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.
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Even though you didn't give us the fragment with the comma slice, it isn't really necessary here as we can answer just based on these 4 options here. All options apart from the second one are correct - only the second option doesn't fix the mistake of the comma splice, whereas the other options do but connecting the sentences properly.