WAEC Literature in English 2013 Objective — Question 7
Question 7 of 45 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Literature in English 2013 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.
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The author's attitude towards the subject being treated is
- A. mood
- B. toneCorrect
- C. feeling
- D. atmosphere
Explanation
Tone is the attitude of the author towards the subject matter. Tone reveals the writer's mind towards the subject matter. The use of words in a literary work explains the writer's tone or attitude. The tone can be sarcastic, iconoclastic, derisive, serious, angry, protesting, cynical, pessimistic or optimistic as the case may be. The tone of the poet in Birago Diop's 'Vanity' is sarcastic while the tone of the poets in Lenrie Peter's 'The Panic of Growing Older' and Gbemisola Adeoti's 'Ambush' is pessimistic.
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