What do referring words refer to? parts of speech context clues earlier words in a piece of writing adjectives

The correct answer is: Earlier words in a piece of writing.

Explanation:

Referring words, or reference words, are pronouns, demonstrative and interrogative pronouns, that create a connection between ideas and avoid the repetition of certain nouns, in order to increase fluency in a text, or a speech. Being pronouns, and since pronouns are the only way to replace proper nouns, they tend to go at the beginning of sentences, and they establish the connection between the ideas expressed on the sentence with the subject that is being spoken of, or who is realizing an action. Examples of referring words are: That, those, these, is/are, this, for demonstrative pronouns and who, whom, whose, which and what, for interrogative pronouns.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.