The type of verse that is predominantly used in Romeo and Juliet is called blank verse. Blank means white, which is used to show that there is no rhyming scheme in this type of verse - nothing rhymes. It is often paired with iambic pentameter (especially in Shakespeare's works) which is a type of metrical foot.
Answer:
a. impart a melancholy mood
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from "The Scarlet Letter," the author Nathaniel Hawthorne makes reference to the wooden jail of the town and mentions the words "darker aspect," "beetle-browed," "gloomy" and "ponderous" to describe it. In fact, the word melancholy refers to a feeling of sadness and desolation, which the phrases Hawthorne uses to portray the jail and its door illustrate perfectly, since they imply a sense of obscurity, displease, slowness and clumsiness to the scene.
