Question

Read this excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath:

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The movement changed them; the highways, the
camps along the road, the fear of hunger and the
hunger itself, changed them. The children without
dinner changed them, the endless moving
changed them.
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Which literary device is best shown in this passage?

A. Simile
B. Rhetoric
c. Intercalary
D. Parallelism
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Answer 1

The option that best describes the tone of this excerpt is D. sympathetic.

The tone of a literary work is the attitude that the writer has towards a subject. Moreover, tone is usually expressed through the choice of words and style. In this excerpt, phrases such as 'the fear of hunger' and 'children without dinner' indicate that the tone of the speaker is sympathetic. 'Sympathetic' is used to refer to the writer's feeling of compassion for the poor living conditions of that people.

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