Complex tone: A tone that communicates multiple, sometimes conflicting, attitudes simultaneously.
How to apply it: Analyze how a poem conveys two or more attitudes at once—such as admiration and resentment—and what this complexity reveals.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Poetry III
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