WorksheetsTone, Connotation/Denotation
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 58mins
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
“Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,” said the woman. “Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?”
Inquisitive/Questioning
Absurd/Comedic
Insensitive
Regretful/Wistful
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
“But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”
Inquisitive/Questioning
Thoughtful/Considerate
Sassy
Earnest
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
“Good-night! Behave yourself, boy!” she said, looking out into the street.
Adoring
Formal/Serious
Thoughtful/Considerate
Inquisitive/Questioning
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
“Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.” She still held him. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?”
Judgemental/Accusatory
Absurd/Comedic
Rebellious
Disgusted
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking."
Adoring
Absurd/Comedic
Earnest
Regretful/Wistful
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
When the curtains opened on the first talent show act, the student on the stage stood alone. Suddenly, the auditorium filled with the cheers of her best friends: “You can do it! We believe in you! We’re your biggest fans!”
Formal/Serious
Earnest
Adoring
Gloomy
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
The woman said, "Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say that." Pause. Silence. "I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither tell God, if he didn’t already know. So you set down while I fix us something to eat. You might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable."
Sassy
Earnest
Confident
Triumphant
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
I started my letter with “To whom it may concern,” then continued to list my objections to the homework assignment. My letter ended with “Respectfully, your entire 5th grade class.”
Formal/Serious
Insensitive
Regretful/Wistful
Jubilant
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
“Rachel,” Mrs. Price says. She says it like she’s getting mad. “You put that sweater on right now and no more nonsense.”
Confident
Disgusted
Insensitive
Rebellious
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk.
Regretful/Wistful
Confident
Absurd/Comedic
Earnest
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire / 'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar / Louder, louder than a lion / 'Cause I am a champion and you're gonna hear me roar
Adoring
Jubilant
Rebellious
Confident
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
It’s an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope. It’s maybe a thousand years old and even if it belonged to me I wouldn’t say so.
Gloomy
Formal/Serious
Disgusted
Earnest
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
It might seem crazy what I'm about to say / Sunshine she's here, you can take a break / I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space / With the air, like I don't care baby by the way
Jubilant
Rebellious
Sassy
Thoughtful/Considerate
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
The dog didn’t turn back as it jumped over the fence and ran out of the backyard. It ignored the commands of its owners and the growing group of people running behind, trying to catch it. This dog truly enjoyed its first taste of freedom.
Disgusted
Rebellious
Absurd/Comedic
Sassy
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me / My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating / Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me / 'Til then I walk alone
Gloomy
Triumphant
Regretful/Wistful
Insensitive
Which of the following tones best fits the example given?
For I’se still goin’, honey, / I’se still climbin’, / And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
Triumphant
Gloomy
Earnest
Inquisitive/Questioning
Which word best describes the tone presented in this image?
Regretful
Gloomy
Jubilant
Earnest
Which word best describes the tone presented in this image?
Wistful
Insensitive
Absurd
Earnest
Which word best describes the tone presented in this image?
Jubilant
Sassy
Thoughtful
Adoring
Which word best describes the tone presented in this image?
Jubilant
Sassy
Rebellious
Triumphant
How would the connotation of this word be classified?
broken
Positve
Negative
How would the connotation of this word be classified?
Flying
Positive
Negative
How would the connotation of this word be classified?
drowning
Positive
Negative
