Tone Practice

Multiple Choice

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

What is the tone of that passage?

• Joyful

• aggressive

• Argumentative

• Optimistic

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the passage

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.

• Formal

• Terrified

• Calm

• Accepting

Multiple Choice

Noise affects the eardrum as an irregular succession of shocks, whereas a musical sound is smooth and pleasant. With music, the eardrum is thrown into successive periodic vibrations to which the auditory receptor has been attuned.

• Matter of fact

• Disdainful

• confused

• Enthusiastic

Multiple Choice

I couldn’t blame them. They had seen no battles, but the invisible arms of war had taken their men and their hope. Every face I saw was bleak. The anger rose in me for a moment. I hadn’t asked for the war. I hadn’t wanted to leave my family for years and to travel so far away. What did I have to show for those years? A woolen blanket, a cooking kettle, a lucky stone, and stories of what I had seen-the good and the bad. Too bad I couldn’t eat stories.

• Forgiving

• Optimistic

• Irate

• Indignant

Multiple Choice

We are supposed to go to the concert tomorrow, but it has been raining for three days straight. I just know that we won’t be able to go.

What is the Tone?

• Optimistic

• Pessimistic

• Whimsical

• Furious

Multiple Choice

●This was the last fish we were ever to see Paul catch. My father and I talked about this

moment several times later, and whatever our other feelings, we always felt it fitting that, when we saw him catch his last fish, we never saw the fish but only the artistry of the fisherman.

What is the tone?

• compassionate

• Sincere

• Bitter

• joyful

Multiple Choice

Is tone about how the author feels or how the reader/audience feels?

• Reader

• Author

Multiple Choice

How does the author show the tone?

• Diction

• quotation marks

• characters

• setting