Question

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. Which best describes the effect of the words “ugly,” “overgrown,” “pig-weed,” and “unsightly vegetation”? They impart an angry mood. They impart a mysterious mood. They establish a rural, agricultural setting. They establish a rough, untamed setting.

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Answer 2

The correct option is this: THEY ESTABLISH A ROUGH, UNTAMED SETTING.
The words 'ugly, overgrown, pig weed and unsightly vegetation' as used in the passage above give a negative connotation to the passage. They give an impression of an environment that is dirty and not beautiful to behold.<span />