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What Is The Tone Of The Fox By Faith Shearrin

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In the poem “The Fox” author Faith Shearin expresses her feelings in a positive to negative way as she observes the small fox over time. The author utilizes rhetorical appeals, as well as tone to relay a message to the readers, by doing this she let s the audience sit and ponder about the way of the world. Throughout the first four stanzas Shearin conveys a positive tone and describes the fox as elegant and free. By doing this the author appeals to ethos in the readers, concluding them to receive joyful interpretations about the fox an the authors opinion; free as they know “he's nobody's pet” As the poem continues the author's thoughts deepen as she ponders about the foxes' vulnerability to the world.he tone shifts negatively as “it was awful

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