Hello. This question is incomplete. The full question is:
What is the tone of the passage?
1. awestruck 2. humorous 3.calm
By reason of my tender age (and there are some critics who, I hope, will be satisfied by my acknowledging that I am a hundred and fifty-six next birthday) I could not understand what was the meaning of this night excursion—this candle, this tool house, this bag of soot. (On Being Found Out by William Makepeace Thackeray)
Answer:
humorous
Step-by-step explanation:
Reading the above text reveals that the author used a humorous tone to write it. This is because the narrator of the story presents the excerpt comically, especially when referring to his age, which gives a text a lightness and a strong sense of humor.
The tone of the text is the emotion that the text goes through when it is read, because that text passes a funny emotion, we can say that the tone of that text is humorous.