Determining a Central Idea What is the central idea in this part of the essay?
Poetry is the best way to spread news to people
who would not otherwise hear it.
Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most
beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions
which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them,
or in language or in form, sends them forth among
mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with
whom their sisters abide-abide, because there is no
portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which
they inhabit into the universe of things. Poetry redeems
from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.
-"A Defence of Poetry,"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is useful for communicating religious ideas.
Poetry makes time appear to move more slowly
than it does.
O Poetry can preserve life's brief moments of beauty.

D. Poetry can preserve life's brief moments of beauty.

Explanation:

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this is b. how railways dealt with people riding the trains without paying

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.