Question

“And who are you?” the Guards asked her.

“Granny drew herself up. ‘I’m the respectable owner of a house of pleasure in Suchitoto,' she replied, ‘but what with all these subversives shooting up the Guard barracks every other day, I ran out of clients and had to retire. That’s the war for you,’ she sighed.”
The two of them broke out laughing.
What best describes the tone of this excerpt from Claribel Alegria’s “Granny and the Golden Bridge”?
impassioned
lighthearted
ominous
serious

Answer 1

Hi,

I believe it's the second choice, "lighthearted".

~Elisabeth

Answer 2

Answer: B) lighthearted.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. In the given excerpt we can see an example of a lighthearted tone, because the granny and the guard are talking about a situation and laughing.