Question

Read the following lines from the poem "love after love." give wine. give bread. give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you which of the following words best describes the speaker's tone? authoritative calming** encouraging pleading

Answer 1

The correct answer of the given question above would be the third option: ENCOURAGING. Based on the given lines above from the poem "Love after Love", the following words best describes the speaker's tone as encouraging. Hope this answer helps. 

Answer 2

Answer: C) encouraging.

Explanation: the tone of a poem or a text is the author's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, positive, negative, happy, sad, angry, etc. In the given lines from the poem "love after love" we can see that the speaker's tone is encouraging, he is encouraging the audience to love and give back to the person that has loved you.