Question

What impact do the following figures of speech from chunk 6 have on the author’s tone: “All the light out of my eyes,” “dragged like dead wood,” hit me on the head as with a club,” desert of wasting days,” and “withering wilderness of sand”

Answer 1

They give the piece a dreary, melancholy tone.

The imagery of these quotes are very dark and gloomy. They change the author's tone into a more dreary, melancholy tone.