Question 16 Midterm Test) Renault is a character in Sammy’s short story about a group of friends who organized a successful bank robbery. What is likely TRUE if Sammy establishes Renault as the point-of-view character?

A.
Sammy expresses her personal opinions through Renault’s character.
B.
Renault sees and knows everything.
C.
Sammy writes about Renault using the pronoun “he.”
D.
Renault directly engages in the story’s action.

is this the question?

i   believe   the   answer   is   d

answer: b

explanation:

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.