13) Which is the best statement of the theme of this passage?
A) Dancing can be used in more ways than just entertainment.
B) Merchants are often beset on the road by vicious thieves.
C) Traders should be more careful when traveling through the woods.
D) When everyone else gives up, a clever person can come up with a solution.

D) When everyone else gives up, a clever person can come up with a solution.

Explanation:

In this excerpt from an Indian fairy tale, we are introduced to a story which follows ten traders who went to sell their goods and now are going back home. Group of three robbers who are armed attacks them leaving them with just a small cloth. That was not enough, they asked for a dance too. Traders gave up all their hopes in front of vicious robbers whose behavior is unpredictable. Eventually, one of the traders did not let his mind to froze in such a stressful situation and he come up with a possible solution which he even presented in such a clever way by using singing and special terminology which is used among traders. So in this situation, being innovative and creative saved several people.

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a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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