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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 tone of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” shifts depending on which character(s) the omniscient narrator is focusing on in a given moment or scene. When channeling the judgmental—and sometimes overtly cruel—townspeople, the narrator’s tone becomes critical, as seen in the following passage (in which the narrator compares the spider woman to the angel):
A spectacle like [the spider woman], full of so much human truth and with such a fearful lesson, was bound to defeat without even trying that of a haughty angel who scarcely deigned to look at mortals
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