Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

Determine the speaker's tone in the following excerpt.

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

My annoying brother likes to drive me crazy.

There is no other who is that lazy.

He whines to Mom and Dad night and day

Until he eventually gets his way.

What is a sister to do

When he screams 'til he's blue?

There is no way to win,

For he gets under your skin.

He does his best to kill all joy.

Oh, how my brother does annoy!

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

He approached the task with sheer determination. He had studied his plans carefully, spent hours preparing and was sure of his approach. The hours he spent practicing

were grueling and exhausting but he was ready. This was the year he would win the pie eating contest at school.

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

There was a delay in the start of the project, attributable to circumstances beyond the control of all relevant parties. Progress came to a standstill, and no one was prepared to undertake the assessment of the problem and determination of the solution.

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

The School

by Donald Barthelme

And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So we've got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following poem.

All But Blind

by Walter de la Mare

All but blind

In his cambered hole

Gropes for worms

The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind

In the evening sky

The hooded Bat

Twirls softly by.

All but blind

In the burning day

The Barn-Owl blunders

On her way.

And blind as are

These three to me,

So blind to someone

I must be.

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

This place may be shabby, but since both of my children were born while we lived here, it has a special place in my heart

Determine the speaker’s tone in the following excerpt.

If only there were some decent jobs out there, I wouldn’t be reduced to living in this miserable dump