Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0301 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Tone Is
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The idea
The anchor defines tone as the attitude or personality a literary work projects, giving serious and solemn against lighthearted and amusing as its examples. Tone is the stance the writing takes toward its material. It is carried by word choice and rhythm rather than stated outright.
In practice
Tone is the stance, not the subject.
Where people slip
A work states its subject, never its tone.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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