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"They plan to kill General  Washington." He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me all" (103). 
What is the tone of the dialogue? 

• informal
• happy
• serious
• optomistic

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_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.

• mood
• tone

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What is another name for the feeling the author tries to convey in the story?

• Mood
• Setting
• Belief
• Emotion

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if an author has no emotion regarding the story he is telling, his tone can be described as

• playful
• objective
• ironic
• mysterious

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The speaker can best be described as a —

• lonely, elderly man longing for visitors
• magician conjuring up evil spirits
• poet seeking inspiration for a new work
• melancholy person trying to forget a great tragedy

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Why do authors use sensory language?

• It is a way for a writer to help the reader see or connect with their story
• All stories must have sensory language or they become poems.
• without censorship, kids may be exposed to bad writing.
• nobody knows for sure, but it probably has to do with the STAAR test

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What mood do the words convey:
Joyful
Delighted
Ecstatic

• loving
• worried
• calm
• happy

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The attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject, a character, or a reader is called?

• Climax
• Tone
• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

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The words that determine the tone in this passage are...

"although I had tried hard and had followed the steps of the scientific method, my experiment didn't work. I dragged myself into class and slouched in my seat, not raising my hand

• experiment, science

• method, class

• dragged, slouched

• raising hand

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What is the tone that author is trying to convey in this story? (How feeling does the teller of this story seem to experience?)

• sadness

• joyful

• happiness

• celebratory

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