Silas marner might be considered a novel of
manners
motives
sentiment

Silas Marner is usually considered to be a novel of motives. Sentimental novels dealt with emotional appeal while novels of manners presented the life in a certain society.

Answerordinary

If your choices are: -cropping  -anti-aliasing-imperfection-contrastdownsampling is done to decrease the bit rate when transmitting over a limited bandwidth or to convert to a more limited audio format. this is the opposite of upsampling. so the answer is contrast.