Question

Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world.

The author most likely include the words “darker aspect,” “beetle-browed,” “gloomy,” and “ponderous” in order to
impart a melancholy mood.
impart a mysterious mood.
establish a formal, civilized setting.
establish an old-fashioned setting.
THE ANSWER IS A

Answer 1

The correct answer is impart a melancholy mood.

Dark and gloom are always meant to impart melancholy and it has been so since Gothic fiction with people like Poe using it all the time. Formal and civilized or old-fashioned are not connected in any way to the words that were used in the description.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: A.) impart a melancholy mood.