Answer:
c. By involving the narrator with an odd cast of characters.
Explanation:
Washington Irving's collective book of "Tales of a Traveler" includes the section of "The Adventures of the Mysterious Picture". This story deals with the strange, somewhat horror story of a group of travelers staying in a mansion of one of their friends.
This group were then told by their host that there is a haunted chamber but it will be seen whose room was the next morning. They will have to wait to see who the hero of the night will be. This story is infused with elements or horror, with the narrator of the story unable to sleep peacefully in the chamber allotted to him. This excerpt given in the question exemplify Gothic fiction in involving an odd cast of characters with the narrator.
Answer:
It is describing a setting.
The peaceful noises of the farm are the noises of animals as they are getting ready for bed.
Pastoral fields are fields in which farm animals are raised. When it says it is "burned by the setting sun" it means that the colors of the sunset are sort of reflecting off the grasses in the fields, making them look golden, as if they are on fire.
A preacher? Is this a riddle?
Answer: The "Wedding March" was composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
