MM Ch 24-27 Warm Up

What is tone?

• Descriptive languages that uses all of the five senses

• Figurative language; like simile, metaphor etc.

• The attitude an author takes toward the subject, characters or reader/audience.

• How loud/softly a character or person speaks

Tone is usually...

• explicitly stated

• inferred by the readers using clues

What does the phrase "for all intents and purposes" mean?

• That people have to give all of their energy towards their goals

• That one thing has the same effect or result as something else

Which of these does NOT help the reader determine the author's tone?

• word choice

• the use of all caps to show someone is shouting

• knowledge of the audience and purpose

• elements of style and organization

What is connotation?

• the dictionary-definition of a word

• the emotional value associated with words

Where does Maniac go to live right after leaving the Beale's?

• he goes back to his aunt and uncle

• with the Pickwell family

• the zoo

• an old church

The word "blarney" is synonymous with...

• baloney; something made up

• lying

• a nondescript object like "stuff", or "thing"

• smooth-talk of flattery

Which word has a POSITIVE connotation?

• odor

• fragrance

Word choice, or diction, can show whether characters are being formal or casual.

• True

• False

To GROUSE is to...

• yell

• complain

• cry

• laugh