Which option best describes meter?

a. da-da-dum, da-da-dum
b. [stage lights flicker on and off]
c. apple : orange : : watermelon :
d. once upon a time . .

Meter refers to the unit in poetry for rhythm and the beats pattern. Also known as foot, it has usually two or three syllables in each foot.

A word meter is derived from the Greek word 'measure'

With the lines of verse or poem, the meter also refers to the unstressed and a stressed syllabic pattern. Unstressed syllables are shorter and the stressed tend to be longer.

It has various types such as iambic meter, trochaic meter, spondaic meter.

Therefore, option which best describes meter is A. da-da-DUM, da-da-DUM

As it contains stressed and unstressed syllables.

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.