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Read the following passage. The market was a living thing by six in the morning. It breathed in the steam of the dumpling carts and exhaled the shouts of women who had been haggling since before the sun bothered to show. Priya moved through it the way a fish moves through current, sideways and unhurried, never quite touching the bodies that pressed in from every side. Her grandmother had taught her that a good bargain was a kind of conversation, and Priya had learned to listen with her elbows as much as her ears. What does the figurative phrase 'a living thing' suggest about the market?

It is dangerous and should be avoided early in the morning. It is so newly built that it has not yet been worn down. It has the energy, motion, and constant change of something alive. It is secretly run by animals rather than people.

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It has the energy, motion, and constant change of something alive.

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