Question

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.

Answer 1

The last two sentences of this text are the two excerpts that create the dark mood of the passage. These sentences are:

• "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."

What is the Literary Mood?

1. It is the feeling that the text wants to convey.
2. It is the stimulation of emotion through the text.
3. It is an element that provokes the immersion of the reader in the story.

By the time the narrator of the story describes that place was where André was captured, the mood of oppression and negativity is already installed. This mood is highlighted in the last sentence where the narrator states that the creek is haunted, highlighting a dark and scary atmosphere.

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