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English, 17.12.2019 18:31 tishfaco5000

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
a. impart a melancholy mood
b. impart a mysteries mood
c. establish a formal, civilized setting
d. establish and oldfashioned setting

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