If we imagine ourselves in the scene in which the witness speaks with a firm and confident voice saying "that is the man I saw", the most probable thing is that it convinces us because she is very sure of herself, the witness does not doubt it for a moment, she/he is stating it.
The word <u>averred</u> can be replaced by <u>stated</u> since they have the same meaning. Other synonims can be claim, declare or affirm.
The correct answer is "It is best described as an anecdote".
We consider an anecdote to be a personal account or retelling of a particular event or incident. The key word here is "personal". In the example given, we clearly see how <u>the point of view is from the protagonist of a certain personal experience he had and the way he felt about it, constituting it as an anecdote.</u>
We don't know for a fact Utopians don't care about riches, because we're only getting a single man's experience which in addition, cannot be proven.
An analogy recquires some sort of strong comparisson of metaphor that isn't really present in this excerpt.
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I would go with default. Dictionary and library do not really make sense in this circumstance. Default suggests a pre-selected option chosen by the database, which makes the most sense in this situation.
