Read the excerpt from "digging."

the cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
through living roots awaken in my head.

which statement best describes the effect of the alliteration in this excerpt?

the alliteration makes the poem sound disjointed and choppy. the alliteration disconnects the speaker from the earth. the alliteration creates pleasing and interesting sounds. the alliteration shows that the speaker is a poet.

The alliteration creates pleasing and interesting sounds.

Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of a group of words. In the excerpt the examples of alliteration are "squelch and slap/ or soggy peat" and "curt cuts". These lines do not make the poem choppy or disjointed. They help the poem move along. They also have nothing to do with connecting or disconnecting the speaker from the earth. The last option is simply a throw away option. Alliteration never proves or disproves someone as a poet.

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.