The correct answer should be locate basic information.
When you are doing the preliminary research, you are just reading through a bunch of sources and information that you may or may not use while writing. You still aren't deciding which exact sources you are actually going to use, but rather just trying to find them and later on make that decision during another stage of writing.
The literal meaning of a word with no emotional or slang attachment to it
I believe the answer is D
A blank verse is a literary device written in iambic pentameter (a metrical line used in English poetry and verse drama) with regular metrical but with unrhymed lines. This means it consists of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.