What impact do the following figures of speech from chunk 6 have on the authors tone: " all the light out if my eyes," "dragged like dead wood," "hit me on the head as with a club," "deserts of wasting days," and "withering wilderness of sand"

Answer and explanation:

In literature, tone is the way the author feels about a subject, his attitude concerning that subject. Tone is conveyed through word choice and point of view. Thus, the use of figures of speech help convey a certain impression, since the words, their connections and meanings all carry the feelings and opinions of the author.

In the phrases provided, we have words such as "dead", "deserts", "wasting", "wilderness", "dragged" that, on their own, already convey a certain emptiness, a sense of melancholy. In full phrases such as "all the light out of my eyes" and "hit me on the head as with a club", there is a certain violence mixed with hopelessness. After reading those, we could assume the author's tone is somber, heavy, and tragic.

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