Question

"I have so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity--an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray walls, and the silent tarn---a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden hued." "I have so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity--an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray walls, and the silent tarn---a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden hued." Which vocabulary word below BEST describes the mood of the sentence above?

Answer 1

Hello. You did not enter the answer options, however when reading the text, we can perceive a depressing, uncomfortable and frightening mood.

Step-by-step explanation:

The text shown above describes the scenario in a very depressing, frightening and uncomfortable way. The scenario does not cause excitement in the reader, but it causes bad feelings like a certain anguish and a little fear for the sinister atmosphere and without expression of happiness. This is the mood that the text promotes and the intention is to get the reader into that mood with the exposure of many adjectives that promote a mental image in the reader and explore feelings about the mood of the text.