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Developing a tone vocabulary
The aim is to sensitize students to word choice in their own writing and the writing of others
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English
11th Grade
08/20/2014

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Term

Text example:

 

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

 

Tone: 

 

restrained

Definition

 

Other words that could describe the tone.  Tone is nuanced within the context.

 

discreet, temperate, reticent, undemonstrative, cool

Term

Text Example:

 

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king.

 

Tone:

 

somber, candid

Definition

 

Other words that could describe the tone.  Tone is nuanced within the context.

 

solemn, weighty, mournful,sober

Term

Text example:

 

He clasps the rag with crooked hands. 

 

dramatic

Definition

 


Other words that could describe the tone.  Tone is nuanced within the context.

 

vivid, striking, sensational, tragic

 

Term

Text Example:

 

Love sets you going like a fat gold watch.

 

Tone:

 

fanciful

Definition

 


Other words that could describe the tone.  Tone is nuanced within the context.

 

bizarre, imaginative, whimsical, poetic

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