the author's perspective on the topic and audience
In literary contexts, the tone frequently refers to the feelings that a book may provoke in the reader and the mood that an author portrays through word choice. A writer might elicit various emotions and points of view by using a particular tone when writing. In writing, the tone can also take on a variety of language forms, from terse to prosaic.
The words, sentences, and literary methods used by the author all have an impact on the overall tone of the book. The tone of a piece of writing frequently conveys the author's perspective on both the audience and the subject. For instance, every author approaches the same subject uniquely.
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Copernicus and Galileo believed that the earth and other planets orbited around the sun, a radical theory at the time, since the Catholic Church taught that the earth was the center of the universe.
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supported a theory of the universe that contradicted the teachings of the Catholic Church.
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Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
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