Title:Woman of Many Word
By: Merlie Alunan

Voice and Tone
Ask these questions to help you identify and understand voice and tone.

1. Who is telling the story?

2. How is the speaker or narrator characterized or his character revealed? By action or by description/ expressed or implied?

3. From what perspective is the story told? By a person outside of the story or by someone actually involved in the narrative?

4. Is the speaker (the one telling the story) and the author or writer of the work the same person?

5. If the writer and the speaker are two different individuals, are their attitudes toward the subject, events, and readers the same or different?

6. What is the author's attitude toward the material, subject, or theme?

7. What is the speaker's attitude (if different from the author) toward the material, subject, or theme?

8. Toward the reader? Is the tone playful? Serious? Angry? Formal? Pleading? Joyful?

9. What is the atmosphere of the work (the way in which the mood, setting, and feeling blend together to convey the prevailing tone)?​