USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does tone mean?
A
How the sounds or words show feeling.
B
How loud the music is.
C
A brief reference to a person, event, place, or to a work of art.
D
Compares two or more unlike things without using like or as.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In literary terms, tone typically refers to the mood implied by an author’s word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel. The tone an author uses in a piece of writing can evoke any number of emotions and perspectives.

Detailed explanation-2: -tone, in acoustics, sound that can be recognized by its regularity of vibration. A simple tone has only one frequency, although its intensity may vary. A complex tone consists of two or more simple tones, called overtones. The tone of lowest frequency is called the fundamental; the others, overtones.

Detailed explanation-3: -: a particular quality of one’s awareness measured in terms of pleasantness and unpleasantness.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -ˈtōn. : a musical sound having a definite pitch : the sound of a note. : whole step. : accent or pitch of the voice especially when used to express an emotion or a change in meaning. spoke in a sharp tone.

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