Read this excerpt from "The Raven." While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping
, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more." The rhyme of the words "rapping” and "tapping” in this excerpt help create a mood of annoyance. chaos. urgency. mystery.
The mood is exemplified as the ambiance or atmosphere created by the author to offer an emotional environment that surrounds the audience/readers and help evoke the desired emotional response from them.
In the given excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", the rhyme of the words 'rapping' and 'tapping' create a mood of 'mystery' and 'terror'. <em>The speaker discusses that someone came there 'tapping suddenly' that offers a 'mystery' and the arrival of an unknown visitor who is knocking at his 'chamber door' constantly troubles him.</em> Thus, these words supplement to create a 'mystery' and hence, <u>option D</u> is the correct answer.
