Read the excerpt from Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, and answer the question. “Mrs. Gradgrind, weakly smiling, and giving no other sign of vitality, looked (as she always did) like an
indifferently executed transparency of a small female figure, without enough light behind it.”

What can you infer about Mrs. Gradgrind from this excerpt?

A. Mrs. Gradgrind is a hard worker.
B. Mrs. Gradgrind is not very animated.
C. Mrs. Gradgrind works in the dark.
D. Mrs. Gradgrind is an intelligent woman.

One way that the novel differs from earlier literary works is that novelists often leave out many details associated with the setting novels only portray positive aspects of heroes and other important figures characters' personalities in novels are only revealed through dialogue readers are often able to relate better to the characters in novels

The following line from "the story of an hour" provides mrs. mallard's view of marriage: "there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature."which word emphasizes male dominance in marriage?

Which lines from the speech best supports this topic sentence? and as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. we cannot turn back. there are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "when will you be satisfied? " and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. we cannot walk alone. we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. and so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. and so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire. let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of new york. let freedom ring from the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania.