I agree with the person above - I believe the correct answer is A. serenity.
Thoreau was a transcendentalist, which means that he wrote about nature quite a lot. He believed that people should return to living in nature and escape from the concrete cities they were surrounded with in order to find their true selves once again. His description of the pond during the night and day creates a serene and peaceful picture one could relax to.
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Explanation:
Juxtaposition is normally a contrast of two closely connected characters. I've always liked the idea of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
God and Satan, good and evil.
None of these are terrific examples, but I think the closest one that you could pick is
<em>A conflict develops between two characters over the course of a story.</em>
This is called word analysis.
When you are trying to figure out what a particular word means, you are obviously going to analyze it. Maybe you know what its root means, or you can deduce the meaning based on its prefixes and suffixes. You will probably take into consideration the context and neighboring words in the sentence as well in order to analyze it.