Comment: Tone and Style

Question 2 in the exam question requires you to analyze the way the tone and style reflect that Text 3 is a personal comment by giving examples from the text.

Text 3, titled “Just What Modern Romance Needs: “Living Apart Together” was published in 2007 on the Associated Content website, and it represents a personal comment by Gary Picariello. This means that the author presents his own opinion on the topic of living apart together and supports it with several arguments. The arguments are based both on statistic evidence and studies and on the author’s personal perspective.

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Tone
Style
Forms of appeal

Tone

The tone of the author in this article is critical, sarcastic and ironical. Usually, these are markers of a personal point of view, because in more objective articles (like news reports or cover stories) the tone is supposed to be more detached and informative, letting the events speak for themselves.

Here is one passage which is obviously sarcastic and ironic, in which the author appears to be agreeing with the fact that the trend of L.A.T. makes sense. However, he actually implies that this t...