Time remainino52: 48read the excerpt from "an insh aiman foresees hisdeath."which statement best describes the effect of the repetitionin this excerpt? i balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breatha waste of breath the years behindin balance with this life, this deaththe repeated words emphasize the speaker's desire tolive and return to irelandthe repeated words highlight the idea that it doesn'tmatter whether he lives or diesthe repeated words show that the speaker had apromising future ahead of himthe repeated words reinforce the speaker's lack ofemotional attachment to his homeland. mark this and returnsave and exitnextsubmitpe here to searchooe322

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.