Finding Tone in Language
The following is a clippit from the BBC European news. Here I want you to think about the use of tone through language.
What Tone is used in this article and what is it trying to portray?
Find and explain 2-3 examples of language in order to show your understanding of the tone used within this article.
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Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images • A plan for Brexit.
After months of deadlock, Britain and the E.U. have reached a draft agreement over the terms of their divorce. But that’s only the end of the beginning.
The plan now needs approval from Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet, where hard-line Brexiteers could rebel and threaten the deal. Then it needs an O.K. from a fractious British Parliament that will be hard to please. Here are the sticking points that could scupper the deal and lead to a vertiginous “no deal” Brexit. Above, an anti-Brexit protest in London.
Details of the outline agreement aren’t available yet, but Mrs. May’s cabinet is scheduled to meet today, and we’ll have live updates. If the cabinet gives the plan a green light, European leaders will need to give it their own blessing at the end of the month.
Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc in March, come what may. One business that could suffer major disruption: the shipping of flowers.
Europe Edition Your Wednesday Briefing By PENN BULLOCK
