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AP Lang & Comp: Discerning tone

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AP Lang Comp Discerning tone
AP Lang & Comp: Discerning tone
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to help students learn to identify the tone of literary passages in preparation for the AP Lang & Comp exam
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Question: Which of the following terms for tone apply to this quote? More than one may apply. "If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?" (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) benevolent compassionate determined ecstatic effusive elegiac enthusiastic hopeful laudatory learned supportive sympathetic
Answer: elegiac

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