Tone (217-243)
Lukens

Tone in literature tells us how the author feels about his or her subject.  The author's style conveys the tone in literature.  Tone is the author's attitude toward story and readers.  Parody relies on the reader's memory of a known piece of writing or of a way of talking.  Tone is the effect of the writer's words.  Distanced tone occurs in folktales because the reader is dispassionate with the events and in their reality.  Didacticism, or preaching, is expected in sermons and textbooks, not in literature.  Some writers vary the tone as the situation in the story changes.