Read the excerpt from "The Wedding Night" and answer the questions that follow. "My dear Genevieve, you ask me to tell you about my wedding journey. How do you think I dare? Ah! Sly one, who had nothing to tell me, who even allowed me to guess at nothing-but there! nothing from nothing! ... Wait! I take courage from writing, and have decided to tell you all. But promise me not to laugh too much. And do not expect a comedy. It is a drama." How does the author use tone to set the time and place of his story? How would the tone be different if writing about similar events today? Then pick one sentence and rewrite it as if you were writing about a terrifying or humiliating night to your friend. Your response should be at least one hundred words.

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2 May, 13:22

Read the excerpt from "The Wedding Night" and answer the questions that follow. "My dear Genevieve, you ask me to tell you about my wedding journey. How do you think I dare? Ah! Sly one, who had nothing to tell me, who even allowed me to guess at nothing-but there! nothing from nothing! ... Wait! I take courage from writing, and have decided to tell you all. But promise me not to laugh too much. And do not expect a comedy. It is a drama." How does the author use tone to set the time and place of his story? How would the tone be different if writing about similar events today? Then pick one sentence and rewrite it as if you were writing about a terrifying or humiliating night to your friend. Your response should be at least one hundred words.

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Aydan Bernard · Answer 1

The author uses a dramatic and dated tone to set the time and place of his story as he uses dated vocabulary to convey what he is saying. Tone would be different when writing about similar events today as we would use more modern vocabulary, which would cause the reader, or listener, to understand more thoroughly of events that we are speaking about. The author's tone seems sarcastic and negative because of the use of words like " I dare", "sly", and "drama". These words give off a negative connation.

The sentence " My dear Genevieve, you ask me to tell you about my wedding journey. How do you think I dare?" rewritten as a humiliating night is: Genevieve wants to know about my long wedding journey. I'm not so sure I can tell anyone about that journey.

Edward Buchanan · Answer 2

The author uses a dramatic and dated tone to set the time and place of his story as he uses dated vocabulary to convey what he is saying. Tone would be different when writing about similar events today as we'd use more modern vocabulary, which would cause the reader, or listener, to understand more thoroughly of events that we are speaking about.

---As for the 100 words, yikes! you should be able to go from there?--