Based on its context in this excerpt from A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens, what is the meaning of the word jocund? All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music that the crisp air laughed
to hear it!
"These are but shadows of the things that have been said the Ghost. "They have no consciousness of us."
The jocund travellers came on; and as they came, Scrooge knew and named them every one.
A. youthful
B.
lighthearted
exhausted
D
relieved
E experienced

Imagination! who can sing thy force? or who describe the swiftness of thy course? soaring through air to find the bright abode, th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring mode, we on thy pinions can surpass the wind, and leave the rolling universe behind: from star to star the mental optics rove, measure the skies, and range the realms above. there in one view we grasp the mighty whole, or with new worlds amaze th' unbounded soul. what does the speaker compare imagination to in the poem? a. a soaring bird b. the sky c. a cloud d. a sailing ship