“I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

1. Melancholy2. Frightening3. Mysterious4. Joyful

“But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told it at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in. There is no yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb. Out back is a small garage for the car we don’t own yet and a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side.”

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

1. Amused2. Refreshed3. Discontented4. Rejected

“There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible…”

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

1. Painful2. Gloomy3. Welcoming4. Dreamy

“The cold pressed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and it began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of the rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads…”

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

1. Playful2. Violent3. Pleased4. Anxious

“Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…”

White Fang by Jack London

1. Awed2. Unsettled3. Vengeful4. Grateful

“Hedges, fields, and trees, hill and moorland, presented to the eye their ever-varying shades of deep rich green; scarce a leaf had fallen, scarce a sprinkle of yellow mingled with the hues of summer warned you that autumn had begun. The sky was cloudless, the sun shone out bright and warm; the songs of birds, and hum of myriads of summer insects, filled the air; and the cottage gardens, crowded with flowers of every rich and beautiful tint, sparkled, in the heavy dew, like beds of glittering jewels.”

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

1. Overwhelmed2. Mellow3. Cheerful4. Restless