Question

Which of the following elements does not contribute to the dreary mood of this short passage from the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens?

"Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck."

Infinitives
Repetition
Adjectives
Punctuation

Answer 1

The element that does not contribute to the dreary mood of this short passage from the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens is:

Infinitives

Step-by-step explanation:

The reason behind this is that in the first place we recall that the mood in a piece of text is the atmosphere the author creates using, adjectives, stylistic devices, and many more elements to achieve it. Now, in our case, repetition provides the same level of importance to the elements involved by it. So it is necessary to create a context. Punctuations lets you emphasize different moments, and elements. Adjectives allow us to provide a characteristic of an object or action. While infinitives by themselves don't provide the atmosphere because eat or dance by themselves doesn't provide a perspective or style.

Answer 2

The answer is Infinitives. This is because infinitives uses "to + verb". This does not intensify or add to the mood of the excerpt. The verbs, adjectives and punctuation that make the makes the excerpt to show the mood. Additional information, infinitives are not verbs.