According to this paragraph, I would say that the tone is sad and informal. It could be considered sad because of her personal experience. How she also felt when her first boyfriend left her for another girl.
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Answer:
ask what's going on, and listen with an open mind.
Mrs Mallard is beginning to recognise and accept the positive that emerges from her husband’s death, being her newfound freedom. Tentative words such as ‘little’, ‘whispered’ and ‘breath’ convey her disbelief but could also reveal the moral conflict within the realisation to the reader. The repetition of ‘free’ is singsong-like as if to portray a vital moment of self-actualisation.
You could also analyse the contrast in ‘little whispered’ and the way she uses exclamation points in ‘free!’, etc
Not sure how detailed I was meant to go. Hope this helps hey x
Giving inanimate objects life like things . such as saying "the tree spoke to me"
