Question

What are some mood words that describe this passage: “The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de–peopled the streets.”

Question 17 options:

warm, relaxed, fulfilled

cold, suspenseful, lonely

sunny, breezy, nighttime

Answer 1

Some mood words that describe this passage are: cold, suspenseful, lonely, nighttime. The mood word 'cold' describes this passage because it's mentioned that there are chilly gusts of wind. 'suspenseful' fits because there is a sense of suspense building in the lack of people in the streets. 'Lonely' is a mood word that works because suddenly there are no people around, except for the narrator. And 'nightttime' is an appropriate mood word for this passage because it mentions that the time is 10 o'clock at night.