Question

What is the tone in this portion of the poem The Bells? And, what words help you to know what the tone is?
"Hear the sledges with the bells--
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars, that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
keeping time, time, time
in a sort of Runic^1 rhyme,
To the tintinnabulatioon^2 that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells."
A. The tone is melancholy. The words that create this tone is tinkle, wells, sledges.
B. The tone is angry. That words that create this tone are bells, bells, bells
C. The tone is joyful. The words that create this tone are delight, merriment, melody.
D. The tone is serious. The words that create this tone are heavens, foretells, icy

Answer 1

C. The tone is joyful. The words that create this tone are delight, merriment, melody.