What is literary tone? the overall presence of a personality behind the text the attitude that the author, narrator, or speaker has toward the subject or the reader the first-person narrator or speaker that has a personality distinct from the author's real-life personality the process of conveying information about a character

Answer : the attitude that the author, narrator, or speaker has toward the subject or the reader

Tone refers to the writer's attitude towards the subject or the audience that is conveyed by the writer using appropriate choice of words and presentation of point of views about a specific subject. The manner in which the writer approaches a specific topic or a theme is what is popularly known as the literary tone. The tone of the story can either be happy, sad, comic, sarcastic, greedy, formal, informal depending on the author's approach of the topic.