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Read the passage.

[The] witching hour had gone by. … I did not sleep. … My imagination … guided me, gifting the successive images … with vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie. … I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm … on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir …
Which words in the excerpt from Mary Shelley’s introduction to Frankenstein create a dark mood?


vividness far beyond the usual; my imagination; bounds of reverie
some powerful engine; kneeling beside the thing he had put together
I did not sleep; gifting the successive images; show signs of life
witching hour; pale student of unhallowed arts; hideous phantasm

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witching hour; pale student of unhollowed arts; hideous phantasm
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The answer is the bottom choice, 'witching hour, etc'. This is because these are all negative and creepy words, which help to set a very dark theme