Learned and Scholarly tones are somewhat similar. Although they both have, a sense of knowledge from their writers, one is more intellectual while the other is just skilled. Guess which one is more intellectual? Yes, you are correct! Scholarly is more intellectual. While a learned tone comes from experience in something scholarly is made up of being educated in something. A scholarly tone has more of a bookish logic to it. People with a scholarly tone seem to have an erudite understanding of it. Essentially, a scholarly tone conveys more comprehension, in all areas, while a learned tone just shows adequate information about a topic.

Here Grant encourages Jefferson to die with pride. Grant knows that Jefferson’s death will have a dramatic impact on his community and uses this to his advantage by convincing Jefferson to die with dignity by showing everyone that he is not an animal but a human being just like everybody else no matter his color skin. He makes his point across by swaying Jefferson to show the side he is not the side they “think he is.” Grant’s scholarly tone is captured in this passage by his clever approach to solving Jefferson’s trashed reputation. He makes whites think twice about messing with another African American and the African Americans would not let the whites mess with them as easily. In some way, Grant furtively uses reverse physiology to help himself get his message across to his audience.