Read the following passage.
Certainly one of the most important values of literature is that it nourishes our emotional lives. An effective literary work may seem to speak to us, especially if we are ripe for it. The inner life that good writers reveal in their characters often gives us glimpses of some portion of ourselves. We can be moved to laugh, cry, tremble, dream, ponder, shriek, or rage with a character by simply turning a page instead of turning our lives upside down. Although the experience itself is imagined, the emotion is real. . . . Human emotions speak a universal language regardless of when or where a work was written.
Work Cited:
Meyer, Michael. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2013. Print.
What is the tone of the passage?
enthusiastic
humorous
pessimistic
condescending