The author most likely includes words such as “gloomy” and “ponderous” to impart a melancholy mood, as expressed in option A and further explained below.
<h3>What is mood?</h3>
In literature, authors can choose certain words in order to create an atmosphere that will evoke certain feelings or sensations in readers. That atmosphere is known as mood. Examples of mood are:
In the excerpt from "The Scarlet Letter" that we are analyzing here, the use of words and phrases such as "darker aspect,” “beetle-browed,” “gloomy,” and “ponderous” help create a melancholy mood, that is, a feeling of sadness.
With the information above in mind, we can choose option A as the correct answer.
The complete question with the answer choices is the following:
Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter.
Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world.
The author most likely include the words “darker aspect,” “beetle-browed,” “gloomy,” and “ponderous” in order to
- establish a formal, civilized setting
- establish and oldfashioned setting
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