...this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice. (Jane Eyre; Chapter 6, p. 35)
Which literary element is used to establish a mood of suffering in the passage above?
1.characterization
2. dialogue
3. plot
4. setting