In the following sentence, identify the tone:

"She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her."

In the following sentence, identify the tone:

"Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F."

In the following sentence, identify the tone:

"Drawing the attention of his classmates as well as his teacher, the student dared to experiment with his professor’s intelligence by interrogating him about the Bible."

In the following sentence, identify the tone:

"He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the

slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot."

In the following sentence, identify the tone:

"Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the

room making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake."

In the following sentence, identify the tone:

"The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golf ball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn."

In the following passage, identify the tone:

"A vaccine is a preparation of killed or weakened germs that is injected under the skin and causes the blood to produce antibodies against the disease. Effective vaccines, for instance, have been developed for smallpox, rabies, and polio."

In the following passage, identify the tone:

"We have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday, deep below the earth. They lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving behind grieving wives and bewildered children. We bid them a final farewell. "

In the following passage, identify the tone:

"We are seriously failing our nation’s teenagers when it comes to education concerning AIDS. Somehow we must convince them, without delay, that this terrible illness can happen to them, not just too isolated groups in big cities. Let’s give them the information they need to protect themselves—before it’s too late.

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