The English idiom which has the same meaning as the one
undefined in this except is, Slow and Steady wins the race.
Answer: Option D.
Explanation:
'Daughter of Invention' is a story about a family who immigrated to America. The above mentioned excerpt provides a detail of one famous Dominican saying which states that, all it requires for a person to achieve success is being patient and keeping calm. This saying is very much similar to another famous idiom, 'Slow and steady wins the race.' Both these sayings eventually conveys the same meaning that no matter how slow the progress is, if a person is consistent and patient enough, then he can get anything done.
The statement given here is an example of : Paradox.
Explanation:
Paradox is when seemingly incomprehensible and diametrically opposite things are said together in tandem in a sentence to draw out a conflicting meaning out of it.
This is a clear example of paradox as in the given sentence we can see that there are two conflicts that are irreconcilable in any way.
The person who loses his life cannot find it because finding and losing one's life seems diametrically opposite yet the sentence does make sense in the sense of the rhetoric.
