Question

analyzing meaning and tone in informational text: mastery test
identify the tone of each excerpt
commanding grateful determined inspiring
excerpts from speeches
my friends, no one not in my situation can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. to this place, and the kindness of these people, i owe everything. here i have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. (lincolns farewell address at springfield, illinois. february 11, 1861)
it is an old and a true maxim \that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.\ so with men. if you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high - road to his reason (abraham lincoln address at washingtonian temperance society, 1842)
the advantages arising from a system of copyright are obvious. it is desirable that we should have a supply of good books; we cannot have such a supply unless men of letters are liberally remunerated, and the least objectionable way of remunerating them is by means of copyright (copyright, a speech delivered in the house of commons, 1841)

Explanation:

1. In the first excerpt from Lincoln's Farewell Address, he expresses gratitude for the place and people he has been with for a long - time, so the tone is grateful.
2. The second excerpt uses a proverb to inspire and persuade people on how to win others to a cause, so the tone is inspiring.
3. The third excerpt presents a rational argument about the desirability of copyright, with a matter - of - fact and determined tone as it makes a case for copyright.

Answer:

1. grateful
2. inspiring
3. determined