JAMB - Literature In English (2023 - No. 24)
'... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys
The tone of the passage above is
Melancholic
Ironic
Harsh
Derisive
Explanation
The tone of the passage from Cameron Daodu's The Gab Boys is derisive. The author is mocking the overly formal and somewhat incorrect English used in the application letter. Derisive tone is used to ridicule or mock, often with sarcasm or satire.
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