Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this speech.

which statement best describes douglass's purpose in this excerpt?

a. to describe the qualities that will make slaves good citizens and free men

b. to prove the claim that all men are created equal

c. to show that slaves are capable of doing many jobs

d. to establish his authority by explaining that god supports his argument

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we would need to be able to read the passage in question to determine which factor allowed david believe he could defeat goliath. post the passage, and i'd love to out.

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.