This question is based on Literary Principles.
”Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.”
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is
”Virture in Russia as in his childhood, seemed something that arose from men, like a comforting body odour, rather than something from above that impaled the struggling soul like a moth on a pin.”
John Updike, Beech: A Book
The tone of the passage above is
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A.
authoritative -
B.
mocking -
C.
appreciative -
D.
scathing