Read the following passage, then answer the question. “when in april the sweet showers fall and pierce the drought of march to the root, and all the veins are bathed in liquor of such power as brings about the engendering of the flower, when also zephyrus with his sweet breath exhales an air in every grove and heath upon the tender shoots…” reproduced with permission of curtis brown group ltd, london on behalf of the estate of nevill coghill copyright © nevill coghill 1951 what is being described in this passage? a. the characters b. the setting c. the theme d. the plot

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in the section of speech is not

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.