Critical reading identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. what is mr. gradgrind’s opinion of horse riders?
a. he does not approve of them.

b. he is fascinated with them.

c. he believes they have a dangerous job.

d. he believes they have an exciting job

A. He does not approve of them.

Thomas Gradgrind is a character in the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens. He is a mechanized, monotonous person. He loves hard, dry facts and is of an unusual rigidity. His philosophy of calculating rationality does not approve of horse riders. He is a product of the Industrial Revolution, as he believes everything can be mechanized and rationalized, and that people can be trained in a way that they come to resemble machines.

both the address and the poster use diction to convey their message. diction is defined as a style of writing or speaking based on the types of words chosen in order to send a message. parallelism is when a similar sentence structure is used for several sentences on a text; roosevelt's address doesn't follow that. repetition has to do with repeating a word or sentence in order to emphasize and idea, however neither the poster nor the address use repetion. finally, the address doesn't use images to convey a message.

the answer is mary made mudpies on monday.

remember alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.