If you were writing a literary analysis essay and you wanted to present a long series of events as evidence, you might use a 1. summary 2. paraphrase 3. direct quote 4. thesis statement !

I believe a paraphrase would be the correct answer in this case, because a summary is when you take ALL the evidence of a story and put it into a couple of sentences. Paraphrasing is when you use the words of the story, except you place it in differently with different words. Paraphrasining and summarising may seem the exact same, but one does it to the entire story while the other does it to a certain section of the story.

To create unity throughout the poem