Look up Mood in literary elements. What is Mood? How does the author set the mood in the beginning of the story to foreshadow what Scrooge is about to experience? Is Marley’s face on the door knocker part of setting the mood? If you know please answer it i need a paragraph

A Christmas Carol starts with a gloomy mood with the scenes of cold, isolation, poverty, and miserliness. The sporadic cheer of other characters simply highlights this gloom. So, in a way, is foreshadowing Scrooge's future.

Yes, instead of the door knocker, Scrooge sees Marley's face. This unsettles Scrooge for a moment, he half expects to see Marley appear, but of course, his old business partner is nowhere to be seen. Grumbling, Scrooge enters the house and thinks no more of the strange apparition.

Explanation:

The mood is the atmosphere of the story, is the feeling you get while reading a story. This could be happiness, sadness, darkness, anger, suspicion, loneliness, or even excitement.

To describe mood, you should think about the setting and the language used by the author. The mood of a story can change how we identify the thesis and the characters.

Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and it helps the reader develop expectations about the upcoming events. A writer may implement foreshadowing in many different ways.

- free verse.

- " in poetry, one of the best ways to practice technique is to write in. i want all to be unstressed so that “all the clocks” and “in the night” are matching anapests. many forms that sharpen skills are useful in free verse."

it would be offer because the group is offering all at once.