What is a question you can ask yourself while reading to you understand tone? 1. who or what is the text about 2. what is the most important point the author wants me to understand 3. what extra information is the author giving me to me understand the main idea 4. what is the effect of the authors choice of words?

     What helps us understand tone is the question   4. What is the effect of the author's choice of words?

   By effect we might mean the emotions we get from these words, the mood implied in the situation expressed by the words the author chose. The style of writing designs the atmosphere the text has and tells us the way we should understand it  in some way.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”