Question

What is tone?

a. the development of a story in sequential order

b. the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

c. a hint at future events through descriptions and dialogue

d. the writer’s attitude toward the audience and subject

Answer 1

The answer is D. because when a writer writes about a topic, they in some way have an attitude or feelings towards that topic.

Answer 2

The tone is the writer's attitude toward the audience and the subject.

Tone sometimes gets mistaken for mood.