Read the excerpt from Bruno’s summary of Gulliver's Travels. When Gulliver tours the academy, he sees a man attempting to get sunbeams out of cucumbers and a man trying to turn ice into gunpowder. This summary is an example of a) paraphrase

b) a quotation

c) text evidence

d) verbal irony

a) Paraphrase.

Explanation:

A paraphrase is a form used by someone who is rewriting the same events but through his own words. He describes the same events or things that are from another source but the ideas remain the same.

Bruno's summary of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels has the same idea of describing Gulliver in his travels and his encounter of seeing a man "attempting to get sunbeams out of cucumbers and a man trying to turn ice into gunpowder". This is a paraphrase of the very same scene from the original text of Gulliver's Travels which Bruno represents in his paper.

Thus, the correct answer is option a).

the answer is c, because they are being narrated.