The answer is D. It creates a humorous tone by comparing Quinces speech to something disorganized and hard to follow
They are describing colonel pickering from pygmalion, a play by george bernard shaw.
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.
