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excerpt from Act IV, Scene 1, in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

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"Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is that
the Duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,
good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your
pumps. Meet presently at the palace. Every man
look o’er his part. For the short and the long is, our
play is preferred. In any case, let Thisbe have clean
linen, and let not him that plays the lion pare his
nails, for they shall hang out for the lion’s claws.
And, most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for
we are to utter sweet breath, and I do not doubt but
to hear them say it is a sweet comedy. No more
words. Away! Go, away!"

What is the tone of this excerpt and how does the language create it?

A. Informal tone: It uses phrases such as "dear actors" and "sweet breath" which are informal.

B. Formal tone: It uses words like "hath," "apparently," and "presently" which are formal words.

C. Formal tone: It is written in blank verse.

D. Informal tone: It is written in prose.

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The right answer is "D. Informal tone: It is written in prose. "

The explanation for this is that the text is written in a more natural style (which is characteristic of the informal tone), without subjection to the conventions that prevail in the field of poetry like rhyme, rhythm, metrics, syllables, musicality (which is characteristic of prose).

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