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Ralph Waldo Emerson — Unit test

Question 5 • [ELA11] ELA 11, Sem 1 (26-27)

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 includes the words “darker aspect,” “beetle-browed,” “gloomy,” and “ponderous” in order to

Answer
A
impart a melancholy mood. ✓ Correct
B
impart a mysterious mood.
C
establish a formal, civilized setting.
D
establish an old-fashioned setting.
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