It is important because a narrative is supposed to tell you about all the important parts of a story so without the key events it wouldn't be a complete narrative.
It is a tool that helped decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The answer would be personification.
Personification is giving an animal or object human traits or describing them doing something normally only a human can do. Words cannot physically dance across a page.
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