The paragraph below is an excerpt from an article written for a school newspaper. Texting is an increasingly popular means of communication with students at Mystic Falls High School. Students
text their friends to make plans, ask questions, and share information. However, texting can also be distracting.
It takes students' attention away from the primary purpose of school: learning.
What is the tone of the article?
• melancholy
humorous
O respectful
• critical
Mark this and retumn
Save and Exit
Next
Submit

Critical

Explanation: The paragraph shows a critical tone due to the last two sentences. The beginning was purely informative of the rising popularity of cell phone usage. None of the particulate tones were being used. As the paragraph progresses, the author switches to the stating a negative side to cell phone usage. This being said, melancholy and humorous make no particular sense as an answer, which leaves us with respectful and critical. We can eliminate respectful because although the author was respectful, there was more to it then just that. Hope that helps!  

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.

i cannot see any of the options