Tone Vocabulary Words

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Humorous
• Persuasive
• Anxious
• Cheerful

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Bitter
• Respectful
• Objective
• Humorous

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Enthusiastic
• Serious
• Mocking
• Sorrowful

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Ironic
• Informational
• Joyful
• Dramatic

The vacant ice looked tired, though it shouldn’t have.  They told him it had been put down only ten minutes ago following a basketball game, and ten minutes after the hockey match it would be taken up again to make room for something else.  But it looked not expectant but resigned, like the mirror simulating ice in the Christmas store window, not before the miniature fir trees and reindeer and cozy lamp- lit cottage were arranged upon it but after they had been dismantled and cleared away. 

• sad
• exciting
• sleepy
• somber

In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady.  In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that I felt personally honored whenever nature and large ships were referred to as feminine.  But as I matured, I began to resent being considered a sister to a changeling as fickle as luck, as aloof as an ocean, and as frivolous as nature. 

• bitter
• informational
• gloomy
• excited

Today is very boring, it’s a very boring day, there is nothing much to look at, there is nothing much to say. There’s a peacock on my sneakers, there’s a penguin on my head, there’s a dormouse on my doorstep; I am going back to bed.

• bored
• tired
• fanciful
• exciting

Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasoned fears.  Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair.  Phrases crept into the language expressing man’s revulsion or ignorance—“Bat’s in the Belfry,” “Batty,” “Blind as a Bat.”

• creepy
• scary
• informational
• exciting