Manner of speaking (or writing) (4)
I believe the answer is:
tone
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">I believe this is a double definition.<br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">manner of speaking</span>' is the first definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(tone is a kind of manner of speaking)</span><br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">writing</span>' is the second definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(tone is a kind of writing)</span><br/ ><br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for tone that I've seen before include "Quality of a person's voice" , "A pitch of note" , "Theobald Wolf . . . ." , "Bodily firmness" , "Note as in voice" .)