A jihad is "a war or struggle against believers" (among Muslims).
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B, the hook is to get the reader's attention.
Answer:
They built schools where people learn.
They built hospitals where people get treated.
They spread Islam.
They brought new crop that people eat nowadays.
Explanation:
The line that best paraphrases the excerpt is A. And when I think that I’ll never see you again, beautiful creature (...).
To paraphrase is to express the meaning of something by rewording it in a different way. Both the excerpt and option A express the same: that the poet is considering the possibility of never looking at the beautiful "creature" again.
It is a simile because your comparing two things
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