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Read the following passage. In the beginnings of the last chapter, I informed you exactly when I was born; but I did not inform you how. No; that particular was reserved entirely for a chapter by itself; besides, Sir, as you and I are in a manner perfect strangers to each other, it would not have been proper to have let you into too many circumstances relating to myself all at once.—You must have a little patience. I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship. (from Tristram Shandy, Volume I, Chapter 6, by Laurence Sterne) The tone of this passage is _____. formal (distant) and stiff intimate (chatty) and playful condescending and formal serious and intimate

Although the words that the speaker uses are formal, the intention and the tone is clearly intimate. The reader can easily understand that the speaker is willing to tell everything about himself to the other person. He already feels comfortable telling him about his life and his opinions. As he himself says at the end of the passage, the acquaintance that begins between them will grow into familiarity and that will terminate in friendship. By reading this sentence, we can realize how the speaker feels about the other person. He already feels their relationship is close and intimate, even now that they technically don’t know each other.