WorksheetsNarrative Tone
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
—J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
- In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Cheerful and informative
Cynical and intelligent
Erratic and uneducated
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."
—Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Unsettling and grim
Sentimental and regretful
Facetious and evasive
"All this happened, more or less."
—Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Reliable and excited
Unreliable and casual
Unreliable and angry
"We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. "
—Louise Erdrich, Tracks (1988)
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Malicious and sarcastic
Haunting and reflective
Urgent and worried
"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up."
—G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Grieving and hysterical
Macabre and ironic
Jaded and derisive
"Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. "
—William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
In this quote, the details reveal a narrative tone that can best be described as...
Incredulous and jaded
Gullible and formal
Gentle and imploring
"High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour."
—David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Farcical and humorous
Ghoulish and sarcastic
Inspired and impassioned
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Threatening and proud
Humorous and naïve
Melancholy and sarcastic
“I could tell the officer all of this because it was the truth. All of this happened in the house at some stage. Should it matter when it happened?”
― Sarah Schmidt, See What I Have Done
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Reliable, but opinionated
Unreliable and irreverent
Unreliable and mournful
“My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time.
I am a crazy woman... That last part is true.”
― Brunonia Barry, The Lace Reader
In this quote, the details reveal a narrator's tone that can best be described as...
Humble and realistic
Sensitive and sardonic
Unreliable and erratic
Reliable and humble
