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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. "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin'." (Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous) bantering colloquial confident detached didactic factual informal objective restrained scholarly
Answer: colloquial, detached, informal