Question

Chloe and her aunt hurried up the path leading to the hotel. The building had been a grand old mansion with a stately front porch. Unexpectedly, as the two neared the broad stairway, a clap of thunder shook the ground and lightning shot through black clouds. The hotel became an eerie shadow against the night sky, and those grand steps now loomed ominously before them.

This is a paragraph that comes early in a novel. What is the likely purpose of the thunder and lightning in the plot?
Responses

to foreshadow a problem that will come later in the story
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to show why Chloe and her aunt are in a hurry to get inside
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to introduce the storm that the plot will center around

Answer 1

to foreshadow a problem that will come later in the story