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)

Hello. This question is incomplete. The full question is:

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.

the answer is both an appeal to ethos and logos (if that's what your question options were)

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