Diction & Tone

Multiple Choice

What is diction?

• the attitude, the feeling

• word choice

• different types of sentences and punctuation

• tells your story

Multiple Choice

“Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans.”

What are the specific words that create the feeling of the sentence?

• Bouncing, joyous, lit

• room, she, vicinity

• vicinity, their, plans

• she, fiancé, plans

Multiple Choice

“She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.”

____ diction contributes to the ____ tone.

Choose the best words to fill-in-the-blanks.

• Exciting, hurried

• Solemn, reverent

• Understated, serious

• Frightening, alarming

Multiple Choice

What is tone?

• the attitude, the feeling

• word choice

• different types of sentences and punctuation

• tells your story

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the following statement?

"Those grimy rugrats need to keep their despicable paws off my property. Children should not be allowed in public without a babysitter!"

• humorous, light-hearted

• bitter, angry

• neutral, objective

• sarcastic, witty

Multiple Choice

Read this statement: "Those grimy rugrats need to keep their despicable paws off my property. Children should not be allowed in public without a babysitter!" The diction that suggested a bitter tone included the following words:

• children, public, allowed

• property, children, babysitter

• paws, grimy, rugrats, despicable

• babysitter, allowed, property

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the following passage?

"Those delightful children are a joy to see playing in my yard. Their bright faces and silly antics bring a smile to my face."

• sarcastic, stern

• angry, bitter

• warm, positive

• humorous, light-hearted

Multiple Choice

Read this statement: "Those delightful children are a joy to see playing in my yard. Their bright faces and silly antics bring a smile to my face."

The diction that conveys a positive and warm tone include:

• yard, face, antics

• bright, smile, delightful

• children, playing, yard

• face, see, yard

Multiple Choice

Which phrase has a neutral tone (shows neither a positive nor negative tone -- objective)?

• The much-anticipated event at the glamorous new arena featured singers, dancers, and musicians, performing for 25,000 delighted spectators.

• The event at the arena featured singers, dancers, and musicians, performing for 25,000 spectators.

• The ill-planned event at the run-down arena featured second-rate singers, amateur dancers, and so-called musicians, performing for 25,000 raucous spectators.

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of this passage? --- "This race was going to be my power run, where I would show my competitors my fierce skills and dominate them mightily."

• timid

• angry

• neutral

• confident