When you summarize, you take the main points of a story and write in in a few sentences. You want to make sure you hit all the key parts of the story and don't focus on the small details. If you were telling a friend about a movie you saw, you would by describe the major events, but not the little moments. That would be summarizing. You can do this with any book,movie,story etc. :)
Parallelism means giving two or more parts of one or more sentences a similar form to create a definite pattern, a concept and method closely related to the grammatical idea of parallel construction or structure, which can also be called parallelism.
Answer: The man's quest for knowledge seems to be the topic. The speaker seems to driven and intense about knowing and seeing the world.
Explanation:
I believe it's A, as it's asking for social context of the passage, meaning in what environment it was said at. (I may be wrong, please double check)
Sounds like shes being repetitive. So repetition is the answer.<span />