Do Now 9/14 Eng II

Tone refers to

• the time and place a story takes place.
• the personality traits and appearance of a character.
• the attitude and feelings of an author about a subject. 
• the reason that an author writes.

Connotation is

• the dictionary definition of a word.
• the feelings or ideas that a word invokes.
• the feeling or attitude of the speaker.
• a word that has the opposite meaning of another.

When an author advances a point or a plot

• they are moving forward by adding more supporting details and information.
• they are not completing thoughts.
• they are skipping over important information.
• they are ending their story.

To refine means

• to improve or make clearer by adding distinctions and different points.
• To make the story too complicated to understand.
• to repeat the same details multiple times.
• to add some sugar to tea before sipping.

To Persuade, To Inform, and To Entertain are 3 main

• connotations.
• author's purposes.
• synonyms.
• point of views.

Select the pair of synonyms below:

• up and down
• their and there
• sad and sorrowful 
• music and rapper

Which of the following has the most positive connotation?

• scrawny
• bony 
• slender
• skeletal 

What is the tone of the sentence below?
I am never going to make friends. Nobody knows me at this new school, and nobody wants to know me. I might as well get used to being alone.

• optimistic/hopeful 
• timid/shy
• regretful 
• pessimistic/hopeless