Question

What is a question you can ask yourself while reading to help you understand tone?

1. Who or what is the text about
2. What is the most important point the author wants me to understand
3. What extra information is the author giving me to help me understand the main idea
4. What is the effect of the authors choice of words?

Answer 1

The answer is 2. What is the most important point the author wants me to understand? I am positive because I took the quiz and it was correct.

Answer 2

What helps us understand tone is the question 4. What is the effect of the author's choice of words?

By effect we might mean the emotions we get from these words, the mood implied in the situation expressed by the words the author chose. The style of writing designs the atmosphere the text has and tells us the way we should understand it in some way.