Question

Read the excerpt from Walden.

[A]s the sun arose, I saw it [the pond] throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle [secret meeting].

In the excerpt, Thoreau uses imagery to describe
fog slowly rising from the surface of the pond.
a fierce wind blowing water across the pond.
insects floating peacefully above the pond.
a soft, warm light shining on the pond.

Answer 1

fog slowly rising from the surface of the pond.

Thoreau’s phrases—“nightly clothing of mist,” “mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing”—evoke fog lifting from the pond at sunrise.