D. Personification
Personification is a metaphor and a literary device that provides a thing, idea, abstract qualities, nature, emotions or event with human characteristics (such as dancing, talking, thinking, among others.). In the excerpt, the narrator uses personification in the sentence by giving "the words" the attribute of dancing (as if they were alive), which is a characteristic of humans: "He felt elated as he watched the words dance across the page"
