By reason of my tender age (and there are some critics who, I hope, will be satisfied by my acknowledging that I am a hundred and fifty-six next birthday) I could not understand what was the meaning of this night excursion—this candle, this tool house, this bag of soot. (On Being Found Out by William Makepeace Thackeray)

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What is the tone of the passage?

1. awestruck 2. humorous 3.calm

By reason of my tender age (and there are some critics who, I hope, will be satisfied by my acknowledging that I am a hundred and fifty-six next birthday) I could not understand what was the meaning of this night excursion—this candle, this tool house, this bag of soot. (On Being Found Out by William Makepeace Thackeray)

humorous

Explanation:

Reading the above text reveals that the author used a humorous tone to write it. This is because the narrator of the story presents the excerpt comically, especially when referring to his age, which gives a text a lightness and a strong sense of humor.

The tone of the text is the emotion that the text goes through when it is read, because that text passes a funny emotion, we can say that the tone of that text is humorous.

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i think the anti-race spokesman is working to achieve equality between whites and blacks and to encourage blacks to shakespeare's theory