ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An author’s attitude, or tone, is simply his or her feelings about the subject he or she is writing about. Writers express their attitudes through their word choice, sentence structure, and figurative language.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tone refers to the author’s attitude-how they feel about their subject and their readers. It expresses something of the author’s persona, the aspects of their personality they wish to show to their readers. For example, are they being funny or serious?

Detailed explanation-3: -The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader. Often described as a “mood” that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem’s vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tone indicates the writer’s attitude. Often an author’s tone is described by adjectives, such as: cynical, depressed, sympathetic, cheerful, outraged, positive, angry, sarcastic, prayerful, ironic, solemn, vindictive, intense, excited.

Detailed explanation-5: -"The film was terrible." In fact it’s subjective, because it tells us about the writer’s feelings. It isn’t a fact that the film was terrible, it’s a feeling or an emotional reaction, and so a sentence like this would not be acceptable in objective writing.