Question

read the excerpt from ships chronometer from hms beagle. before long the whole of britain was running by the clock, and the measurement of time had been severed from the natural cycle of days and seasons. the clock ruled every aspect of life — shops and schools, pleasure and work. as charles dickens wrote, there was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself had given in. nigel thrift explains: the chronometer, an exceptionally accurate clock, meant that gradually an ever more accurate measure of time became possible, and that of course worked through other things in the nineteenth century to produce ever more standardized time. a good example of that is the railway, where standard time based on the meridian was first applied by the great western. macgregor mainly engages the reader through the use of a(n)
○ anecdote.
○ description.
○ opinion.
○ quotation.

Explanation:

The text includes a quote from Charles Dickens, which is a form of quotation used to engage the reader and add credibility or a literary touch to the writing. There are no anecdotes (personal short - stories), the text is not mainly descriptive in nature, and it's not presenting an opinion in the sense of a personal belief without citation.

Answer:

D. quotation