FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE #2

The next example is of tone.

It is the way a poem or the words within it sound.

The tone changes with each stanza.

Stanza 1: The tone is one of hope and ambition to find the city of Eldorado.

Stanza 2: The tone changes when he [Sir Walter Raleigh] loses hope for finding the city of
gold.

Stanza 3: The tone continues on to one of losing hope of finding Eldorado.

Stanza 4: The tone changes to one of mockery and one of taunting.