Imagine a novel about a voyage across the ocean in the olden days. The author's purpose is to show how ferocious the sea can be and what a dangerous adventure it was to sail across the ocean. Which way of describing the setting would BEST advance the author's purpose?
a. The surface of the sea glistened with constantly moving sparkles of light flashing as the waves gently swayed by.
b. The boat creaked and rocked, tossed like a toy by the monstrous wave tendrils as the dark skies unleashed their fury.
c. The surface of the sea was difficult to make out in the dark, yet it called out with a certain allure and promised a kind of mysterious serenity.
d. The boat, anchored at the dock, was a curiosity among the island children, who played nearby and whose laughter could be heard from onboard.