tone sentences - helena, sunny, dylan

He hadn’t slept sufficiently for 5 months and confined himself to his room within that period; his face sagged and there was no life in his eyes.

• lugubrious

• allusive

• clinical

• turgid

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Alfie squeaked in joy when she saw her new toy because it was scented.

• sardonic

• insipid

• zealous

• condescending

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

She can be dangerous so do what you think is best.

• erudite

• admonitory

• ribald

• colloquial

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

There isn’t anybody else like Joe; someone who at his great aunt’s funeral had blindly proceeded to integrate increments of his stand-up routine within his eulogy for her.

• facetious

• caustic

• exuberant

• obsequious

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What the h*ll do you want now? Can’t you see I'm busy.

• incisive

• earnest

• fancifully

• choleric

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I have no interest in what you do with your time or life.

• mock-heroic

• elegiac

• quizzical

• melancholic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Jonathan modestly declined the offer to go backpacking, simply because his non-profit was holding its minutes that weekend.

• lyrical

• exuberant

• mocking

• staid

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

As the King spoke about the upcoming battle between his kingdom and their neighbor , the room became silent and all the attention was fixed on him.

• callous

• authoritative

• apathetic

• resigned

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Back then, we would stay at the playground after school, playing tag and family . It was like our little fort of happiness.

• pretentious

• whimsical

• malicious

• jovial

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The only way the killer could have gone into the room without triggering alarm would be because he himself had access to the remote control room, and there is only one person in this group that had the keys to that room: the security guard.

• erudite

• effusive

• incisive

• derisive

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1