Tone

​Tone:

Hey! Watch your attitude!

​How can you?

​SWBAT

​COPY THE NOTES ON SLIDES 3,5,11.

Define tone.

Define mood.

Distinguish between tone and mood.

Identify the tone of a passage.​

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​Introduction to Tone-COPY THIS!

​Tone

Refers to the author's attitude towards the subject.

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Tone directly affects the mood.

Word choice creates the mood, or atmosphere, of a text.

They are not the same!

Match

Match the following

• mood

• tone

• word choice

the atmosphere

the author's attitude

the deliberate use of certain words

• the atmosphere

• the author's attitude

• the deliberate use of certain words

​COPY THIS! Tone words typically fall into one of three categories.

Multiple Choice

The moment the words were out of my mouth, I wished I could take them back. I didn't mean to hurt Keith's feelings. He is such a kind person, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be treated so poorly. I guess the stress from school has been weighing on me heavily lately. Instead of taking my problems out on him, I need to deal directly with what is causing the stress.

What is the tone of the passage above?

• funny

• regretful

• admiring

• angry

Multiple Select

Which words created that tone?

The moment the words were out of my mouth, I wished I could take them back. I didn't mean to hurt Keith's feelings. He is such a kind person, and he certainly doesn't deserve to be treated so poorly. I guess the stress from school has been weighing on me heavily lately. Instead of taking my problems out on him, I need to deal directly with what is causing the stress.

• take them back

• kind person

• stress from school

• Instead of

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the following passage?

Often you feel you’ve done nothing when you’ve actually done a lot. That’s

because what you did do seemed beneath notice—it was so small that it

didn’t “count.” But it did—just as each stitch counts toward a finished dress,

each brick or nail toward a house you can live in, each mistake toward

knowing how to do things right.

• hesitant

• encouraging

• amused

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the following passage?

We have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen

miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday,

deep below the earth. They lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving

behind grieving wives and bewildered children. We bid them a final farewell.

• forgiving

• sorrowful

• angry

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the following passage?

What’s the matter with those idiots in the city council? First they pass new

parking regulations saying we can’t park our cars in front of our own houses

without a special permit. Now they’ve gone and slapped another tax on gas

purchase—just to widen a road that’s already wide enough. Anyway, nobody

enjoys the traffic delays resulting from road construction. The sooner we

vote those incompetents out, the better off we’ll all be.

• compassionate

• angry

• surprised

1. What the author describes to the reader

2. The author’s word choice.

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​COPY THIS!

How do authors create tone?

Drag and Drop

Tone is the ​

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attitude towards the text. Tone and ​

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are ​

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from one another. Mood refers to the reader's​

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But, both mood and tone are ​

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through the author's word choice.

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author's

mood

different

feelings.

conveyed