The answer is option B "a large group of people." Using context clues you can see that the word 'crowd' means a large group of people. Context clues is the way to paraphrase, or find the central idea of a paragraph, essay, stanza, or poem. The central idea is the main idea of essay you can also use context clues to find the paraphrase of lines in a poem paraphrasing is finding the meaning of these lines which is what is this questions is all about.
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