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Read the excerpt from Bruno's summary of gullivers travels

When gulliver tours The Academy he sees a man tempting to get sunbeams out of cucumbers and a man trying to turn ice into gunpowder.

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The answer is A. a paraphrase............................................................
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A paraphrase

A paraphrase is a concise summary written with one's words with the intention of extracting the main events or ideas that are developed in a long text, or in this case, a story. Paraphrasing is used to obtain a better understanding of a story or author's intention.

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