Select the correct answer. Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt?
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte (excerpt)

Long did the hours seem while I waited the departure of the company, and listened for the
sound of Bessie's step on the stairs: sometimes she would come up in the interval to seek
her thimble or her scissors, or perhaps to bring me something by way of supper-a bun or a
cheese-cake-then she would sit on the bed while I ate it, and when I had finished, she
would tuck the clothes round me, and twice she kissed me, and said, "Good night. Miss Jane."
When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world, and I
wished most intensely that she would always be so pleasant and amiable, and never push
me about or scold, or task me unreasonably, as she was too often wont to do. Bessie Lee
must. I think, have been a girl of good natural capacity, for she was smart in all she did, and
had a remarkable knack of narrative: so, at least, I judge from the impression made on me by
her nursery tales.

Which word best describes the author’s tone in this excerpt?
A. Ironic
B. indignant
C. admiring
D. dejected

Definition for excerpt illustrates the bandwagon propaganda technique

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

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