1. impinge = strike
The word impinge can have various meanings, but in the case above, it means to strike. When 'the rain impinge[d] upon the earth,' it means that it started raining, the rain started striking the earth. To impinge means that something starts, and usually something negative.
2. garrulous = loquacious
The word garrulous refers to someone who talks excessively, likes to talk a bit too much, and usually about something trivial. Loquacious is a fancy word to denote the same thing, although it has a more positive connotation - it refers to someone who can speak nicely.
3. pious = religious
The word pious comes from the Latin word pius, which means dutiful. So when English took this word from Latin, it added a different suffix (-ous), and gave it the meaning of being 'dutiful to God.' So nowadays, pious refers to someone who is devoutly religious.
4. ruinous = dilapidated
The word ruinous refers to something which is in ruins, which is falling apart. The word which means the same thing is dilapidated - both of these words are usually used to describe buildings that are very old, and derelict, and are practically in ruins.
Answer:
Mood in a poem is the tone that the poem is written.
A mood is a literary element that stirs up certain feelings in its readers because of its contents.
The mood of a poem can either be sorrowful, happy, angry expectant, despondent, etc.
There are different types of poems such as ode, ballad, elegy, etc and they usually have typical moods.
A couplet is two consecutive lines of poetry that <u>usually rhyme (as .</u> However, Shakespeare often used them at the end of his sonnets <u>to sum up the main points</u>.
For example:
"Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope." - Sonnet 52
"You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men." - Sonnet 81
Considering the afore-mentioned, the appropriate option would be A.
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Monstrous - hideous
Savage - bestial
Sylvan - wooded
Mellifluous - soothing sound
