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Read this excerpt from "The Lady's Dressing Room":
Five Hours, (and who can do it less in?)
By haughty Celia spent in Dressing;
What tone is Swift most clearly using?
A. Somber
B. Mocking
C. Skeptical
D. Impartial
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Answer: B) Mocking.

Explanation: The tone of a text or sentence is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones, like: positive, negative, objective, sad, angry, etc. In the given excerpt from "The Lady's Dressing Room" Swift is using a mocking tone, to make fun of Celia spending five hours in dressing, we can see that in the phrase "and who can do it less in?"

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Swift is using a mocking tone in this excerpt from "The Lady's Dressing Room." (option B)

What is tone?

In literature, tone refers to the way an author or a narrator approaches a certain topic, that is, his attitude towards it. In the excerpt we are analyzing here, Swift uses a mocking tone.

We can tell Swift is mocking the amount of time spent by women in their dressing rooms, getting ready, when he asks who could ever get ready in less than five hours. He is clearly being ironical, implying that five hours is too much.

With the information above in mind, we can choose option B as the correct answer.

Learn more about tone here:

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