Metamessage is defined as:
a. the meaning of a message that tells others how they should respond to the content of a person's communication based on his or her relationship to them.
b. a type of communication in which much of the information is conveyed in words rather than in nonverbal cues and contexts.
c. the overlap among the syntactics, pragmatics, phonetics, and language styles of a native language creating a third way of communication.
d. a verbal message often designed to camouflage a speaker's true intentions, needs, wants, and desires.

A). The meaning of a message that tells others how they should respond to the content of a person's communication based on his or her relationship to them.

Explanation:

Metamessage is usually referred to as the implied or implicit meaning displayed by a message. It is also called the inner message that can be understood only when you read between the lines. Metamessage exemplifies secondary communication as it needs to be interpreted or inferred. Thus, the meaning of such a message tells others how they should respond to the content of a person's communication based on his/her perceptions or relationship with them. Therefore, option A is the correct answer.

answer; (external conflict)

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war