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Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two excerpts create a dreary mood in the passage?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving (excerpt)
About two hundred yards from the tree, a small brook crossed the road, and ran into a marshy and thickly-wooded glen, known by the name of Wiley's
Swamp. A few rough logs, laid side by side, served for a bridge over this stream. On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of
oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild grapevines, threw a cavernous gloom over it. To pass this bridge was the severest trial. It was at this identical
spot that the unfortunate André was captured, and under the covert of those chestnuts and vines were the sturdy yeomen concealed who surprised
him. This has ever since been considered a haunted stream, and fearful are the feelings of the schoolboy who has to pass it alone after dark.
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Answer 1

The two excerpts that create a dreary mood in the passage are:

1. “A few rough logs, laid side by side, served for a bridge over this stream. On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild grapevines, threw a cavernous gloom over it.” This excerpt creates a dreary mood by describing the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the woods.

2. “This has ever since been considered a haunted stream, and fearful are the feelings of the schoolboy who has to pass it alone after dark.” This excerpt creates a dreary mood by describing the fear and unease that people feel when they have to pass the haunted stream alone after dark.