Read the excerpt from Utopia.But after the ambassadors had stayed a day among them, and saw so vast a quantity of gold in their houses (which was as much despised by them as it was esteemed in other nations), and beheld more gold and silver in the chains and fetters of one slave than all their ornaments amounted to, their plumes fell, and they were ashamed of all that glory for which they had formed valued themselves, and accordingly laid it aside . . .
The excerpt recounts a brief incident: ambassadors see that even a slave’s chains contain more gold than their own ornaments, and they feel ashamed of their finery. A short account of a particular event is an anecdote, so the best answer is “anecdote.”
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