Tone
Check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. Tone is
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2. Characterize the tone of the following lines from Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”: “When I died they washed me out of the Turret with a hose.”
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3. In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” the line “Tomorrow will be dying” contributes to the _____ tone of the poem.
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4. Which word(s) contribute to the tone in Thomas Hardy’s “Convergence of the Twain”: “In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity / And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she”?
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