Tone Review

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Tone is the attitude the author has about the subject.

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True

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You can only use a negative tone about a negative subject.

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False

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Which tone is represented in the following passage? "Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!" Options: Excited, Sad, Confused

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Excited

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Which tone is represented in the following passage? "She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket." Options: Excited, Calm, Confused

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Calm

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Which tone is represented in the following passage? "As that hurricane threatened, the wind's blast caused angry fifteen-foot waves to crash over the small houses near the shore."

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Ominous

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Which tone is represented in the following passage? "Ugh! Do I really have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again."

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Annoyed

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What is the tone? "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."

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Melancholy

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What is the tone? "He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot."

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Paranoid

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What is the tone? "I'm sure I failed, she thought as she anxiously chewed at a fingernail, both legs bouncing up and down as she waited to hear the results of her driving test."

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Nervous

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What is the tone? "The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golf ball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn."

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