Which of the following elements does not contribute to the dreary mood of this short passage from the novel bleak house by charles dickens? "fog on the essex marshes, fog on the kentish heights. fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. fog in the eyes and throats of ancient greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck." infinitive phrases repetition absolute phrases punctuation

Infinitive phrases don’t contribute to the dreary mood of this short passage from the novel “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. Infinitive phrases are consisted form the infinitive form of a verb plus any complements (often direct object) or/and modifiers (often adverb) and in this short passage there are none of them, so they can’t contribute to the mood.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

the answer is five curious-looking beans