Tone, Connotation/Denotation

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

“Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,” said the woman. “Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?”

• Inquisitive/Questioning

• Absurd/Comedic

• Insensitive

• Regretful/Wistful

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

“But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”

• Inquisitive/Questioning

• Thoughtful/Considerate

• Sassy

• Earnest

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

“Good-night! Behave yourself, boy!” she said, looking out into the street.

• Adoring

• Formal/Serious

• Thoughtful/Considerate

• Inquisitive/Questioning

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

“Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.” She still held him. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?”

• Judgemental/Accusatory

• Absurd/Comedic

• Rebellious

• Disgusted

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking."

• Adoring

• Absurd/Comedic

• Earnest

• Regretful/Wistful

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

When the curtains opened on the first talent show act, the student on the stage stood alone. Suddenly, the auditorium filled with the cheers of her best friends: “You can do it! We believe in you! We’re your biggest fans!”

• Formal/Serious

• Earnest

• Adoring

• Gloomy

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

The woman said, "Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that." Pause. Silence. "I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither tell God, if he didn’t already know. So you set down while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable."

• Sassy

• Earnest

• Confident

• Triumphant

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

I started my letter with “To whom it may concern,” then continued to list my objections to the homework assignment. My letter ended with “Respectfully, your entire 5th grade class.”

• Formal/Serious

• Insensitive

• Regretful/Wistful

• Jubilant

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

“Rachel,” Mrs. Price says. She says it like she’s getting mad. “You put that sweater on right now and no more nonsense.”

• Confident

• Disgusted

• Insensitive

• Rebellious

Which of the following tones best fits the example given?

Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk.

• Regretful/Wistful

• Confident

• Absurd/Comedic

• Earnest