Select the correct text In the passage. Marlanne Moore's "Poetry is written in defense of poetry. In the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect Moore's opinlon of what good
poetry should be?
...to discriminate against "business documents and
school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination" -above
Insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall
we have
It. in the meantime, If you demand on the one hand,
the raw materlal of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested In poetry.

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.

the correct answer is d. sinking. - apex.