Tone

A fundamental principal of EAS

I've added a link to the best discussion of tone that I could find. The following aspects of tone interest us in EAS:
1. What is the tone of the passage?
2. How does the writer create this tone i.e. how does the choice of words and sentence structure in particular create a certain tone?
3. What effects does the tone produce?
Bear in mind that tone can change and hence the effects also change.

Of course, in paper 2 you must think carefully about the tone that you wish to create in order to produce a particular effect. Why don't you practice writing some short pieces in order to create some different tones e.g. mysterious; dangerous; frightening; romantic; philosophical...