Question
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
O impart a melancholy mood.
• impart a mysterious mood.
O establish a formal, civilized setting.
O
establish an old-fashioned setting.
Answer
Establish an old-fashioned setting.