Question 8 of 10 • PBCSD_CR_1001375_English 3_for_Credit_Recovery_S1andS2_2015
Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter.Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.Which best describes the effect of the words “ugly,” “overgrown,” pig-weed,” and “unsightly vegetation”?