As the excerpt expresses the way in which the person talked it was a monotone, with eyes fixed somewhere else, like no paying attention and disconnected from the reality that surrounded her. That is why the excerpt conveys a tone of disengagement when it says that it spoke in a monotone.
a.) expression of subjective feelings - It's the way I make them. c.) incomplete sentences - beat with a wire whisk. Done. e.) first-person point of view - use of I.
