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Definition of Tone
The tone of a piece of writing is its general character or attitude, which might be cheerful or depressive, sarcastic or sincere, comical or mournful, praising or critical, and so on. For instance... read full definition
The tone of a piece of writing is its general character or attitude, which might be cheerful or depressive, sarcastic or sincere, comical or mournful, praising or critical... read full definition
The tone of a piece of writing is its general character or attitude, which might be cheerful or depressive, sarcastic or sincere, comical... read full definition
Tone
Explanation and Analysis:
The novel's third-person omniscient narrator recounts the story and comments on the characters with a tone that is at once playful and serious. The tone is mocking without being derisive and somber without being melodramatic. This balance is in part a result of the narrator's perspective, which combines an intimate look at the characters' fraught inner worlds and a zoomed-out look at the objectively silly situations the characters put themselves in. The tone consequently inspires the reader to feel sympathy for all of the characters, even creating a certain amount of empathy in readers for the least sympathetic figures in the novel.
