It means Syllables
Syllables is the answer
C.) to show objects that represent ideas beyond their literal meaning
The answer is A. Spoken too quietly, the directions to the store were misunderstood.
The rest are misplaced or dangling modifiers that makes it sound like someone was speaking to the store.
Analogy
language contact
cultural environment
pronunciation
use any one of these they are all the same part of the answer.
Reading a variety of biographies would be the best way to get a true picture of a person.
(An an autobiography won't necessarily tell you how others saw a person, so that doesn't work.
Historians aren't usually biased, but they can be, so that might not work.
It would be very hard to expect a friend to write a totally objective biography.)