9. "their protruding branches seemed uncannily to
resemble human arms, reaching out to me, ready
to snap me up into their hollowness."
what is the writer referring to?
what figurative device is used?

you didn't show the passage, so unfortunately i cant you.

i think she wanted to protect her children from the extreme racism of the american south.

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.

i think that the major difference is that it used to be modern