What is the meaning of the word bleak based on its context in this excerpt from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol?

And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants . . .

A.
huge
B.
gloomy
C.
noisy
D.
mountainous

Write an adaptation for an audience expecting a modern english answer ! shakespeare’s language: but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east and juliet is the sun! arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. be not her maid, since she is envious; her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. cast it off. it is my lady, o, it is my love! o that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? her eye discourses, i will answer it. i am too bold: 'tis not to me she speaks. two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyesto twinkle in their spheres till they return. what if her eyes were there, they in her head? the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp. her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so brightthat birds would sing and think it were not night. see how she leans her cheek upon her hand o that i were a glove upon that hand, that i might touch that cheek!

Jekyll and hydedoes hyde die? if he does how

Which literary device does orwell most use to support his purpose in writing in this passage? characters, to show that what happens on the farm is fiction allegory, to show similarities between the farm and the soviet union point of view, to show how the characters think about the murders setting, to show that events in the soviet union may have been caused by the economy