Question

Read the following excerpt from the open "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. Which best describes the speakers tone in this passage?

There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'

A. He is annoyed that his neighbor insists on maintaining an unnecessary.

B. He finds it amusing that the neighbor insists on keeping up old traditions.

C. He is relieved that the neighbor wants to continue maintain the wall.

D. He resents the neighbor insistence that he help rebuild the fallen wall.

Answer 1

Answer: A) He is annoyed that his neighbor insists on maintaining an unnecessary wall.

Step-by-step 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 from "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, we can see that the speaker is annoyed that his neighbor insists on maintaining an unnecessary wall, because he says that he only has apple trees and his neighbor only has pines (they have no animals).