1) describe the overall mood, atmosphere, or underlying idea of the following excerpts and list the author's words that have connotations that contribute to that mood or idea. he was leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not looking out: his face was turned to the interior gloom. the fire had smouldered to ashes; the room was filled with the damp, mild air of the cloudy evening; and so still, that not only the murmur of the beck down gimmerton was distinguishable, but its ripples and its gurgling over the pebbles, or through the large stones which it could not cover. (wuthering heights by emily brontë, chapter 34.) 2) describe the overall mood, atmosphere, or underlying idea of the following excerpts and list words that have connotations that contribute to that mood or idea. never can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping and floundering condition which this high court of chancery, most pestilent of hoary sinners, holds, this day, in the sight of heaven and earth. ( bleak house by charles dickens, chapter 1.)