Becky, Joanne, and Leticia all won individual state championships as members of their high school tennis teams and, consequently, they received several scholarship offers to play tennis in college. In high school, Becky, Joanne, and Leticia were also heavily involved in community service activities and maintained a 4.0 grade point average while taking very difficult classes. Since Stella took the same classes as Becky, Joanne, and Leticia, and also maintained a high grade point average, participated in similar community service activities, and played on the tennis team, she should also be able to get a college scholarship to play tennis.
Stella serves _____________ in Passage C.
Answer choices are: to identify a similarity, as a primary analogue, as the secondary analogue