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 include the words "darker aspect," "beetle-browed," "gloomy," and "ponderous" in order to?

impart a melancholy mood.

impart a mysterious mood.

establish a formal, civilized setting.

establish an old-fashioned setting.

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Keith Blackwell

English

25 September, 00:33

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 include the words "darker aspect," "beetle-browed," "gloomy," and "ponderous" in order to?

impart a melancholy mood.

impart a mysterious mood.

establish a formal, civilized setting.

establish an old-fashioned setting.

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Stephen · Answer 1

The answer to the given question above is the last option: establish an old-fashioned setting. The excerpt above is from the novel "The Scarlet Letter" and basing upon the excerpt with the use of the given words as it describes the setting, the reason the author most likely uses these words is in order to present an old-fashioned setting. Meaning, the setting is no longer modern and abandoned.