Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

The answer is D. Cheerless

 

The figurative language that exists within this excerpt can be identified with the phrases “recesses … to which he never came,” “his austerity could never blight,” and “keep the fire of my nature continually low,” provide readers with a feeling of loneliness, suppression, and sadness.  A person who felt this way or spoke these things would most likely be without happiness and without cheer—or cheerless.