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 scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthorne. which group of words create mood in the passage? darker, gloomy twenty, darker twenty, settlement gloomy, town

Explanation:

Mood is created by descriptive words that evoke emotions. "Darker" and "gloomy" are words that convey a somber and dismal atmosphere.

Answer:

darker, gloomy