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Analyzing

Tone


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Objectives

Students will be able to identify

complimentary tones and tonal

shifts in a variety of passages by

highlighting and indicating in

writing.

Handout: tone words


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How is tone created?

Diction and Syntax can both be used

to create a tone.

Figurative language (similes,

metaphors, etc.)

Detail, imagery & local color

Rhetorical techniques These are all part of an authors

STYLE.


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Intro to Tone

When a prompt is asking about theauthors attitude, it is referring to tone.

Tone is the attitude expressed by the

author, speaker, or character toward thetopic at hand.

In one piece, there may be a main tonewith supporting undertones. There may betwo or three complimentary tones. Theremay be shifts in tone. We must practiceidentifying all of these so that we can writeabout them.


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Complimentary Tones

Complimentary tones are similar,

but not exactly the same.

Complimentary tones are not

synonyms.

Tone words may be various parts of

speech, but should be consistent.

For example, use two adjectives OR

two nouns to indicate tone.


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Instructions for Practice

Read each passage and write down a

list of words which seem important

to you and also words which may

suggest a deeper meaning. Then

read back over the passage.

Consider the words you chose and

decide which two tones they maysuggest. These are the two

complimentary tones of the passage.


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Example 1

There was a steaming mist in all the hollows,and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill,like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made itsslow way through the air in ripples that visiblyfollowed and overspread one another, as thewaves of an unwholesome sea might do. It wasdense enough to shut out everything from thelight of the coachlamps but these its ownworkings, and a few yards of road; and the

reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, asif they had made it all. -A Tale of Two Cities


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Words that Create Tone

There was a steaming mist in all the hollows,and it had roamed in its forlornnessup the hill,like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.A clammyand intensely cold mist, it made itsslowway through the air in ripplesthat visiblyfollowed and overspread one another, as thewaves of an unwholesome sea might do. It wasdense enough to shut out everything from thelight of the coachlamps but these its ownworkings, and a few yards of road; and the

reek of the labouring horses steamedinto it, asif they had made it all. -A Tale of Two Cities


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Complimentary Tones

The words steaming mist, hollows,

clammy, and dense create a sense

of mystery and secrecy.

The words forlornness, evil,

intensely cold, unwholesome sea,

and reek of labouring horses are

hints of evil, ominous strangeness.


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Sentences

A. TONES: mysterious, ominous

B. The mysterious new girl in schoolhas made the other students curious

because she wont say where shecame from, and wont talk about herfamily or past.

C. The warning sign on the fence wasominous, so, fearing for our safety,we decided not to go further.


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For each example:

1. Write the words which seem

important/ tone words/ connotative.

2. Identify the two complimentary

tones.

3. Write two sentences, using the

tone words, that clearly reveal the

tones meaning.


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Passage 1

Oh! No mortal could support the

horror of that countenance. A mummyagain endued with animation could not

be so hideous as that wretch. I hadgazed on him while unfinished; he wasugly then; but when those muscles and

joints were rendered capable of

motion, it became a thing such as evenDante could not have conceived. -Frankenstein


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Possible Complimentary Tones

Frightening, repulsive


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Passage 2

It was a mighty nice family, and a mightynice house, too. I hadnt seen no house outin the country before that was so nice andhad so much style. It didnt have an iron

latch on the front door, nor a wooden onewith a buckskin string, but a brass knob toturn, the same as houses in a town. Therewarntno bed in the parlor, not a sign of abed; but heaps of parlors in town had beds

in them. There was a big fireplace that wasbricked on the bottom, and the bricks waskept clean and red by pouring water onthem- Huckleberry Finn


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Impressionable, admiring


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Passage 3

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea behind him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

-The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson


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Awe, respect


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Tonal Shifts

Good authors rarely use one tone

Speakers complex attitudes


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Look for:

Key words (e.g. but, yet,

nevertheless, however, although)

Punctuation (dashes, semicolons,

periods)

Stanza & paragraph divisions

Changes in line & stanza or sentence

length

Sharp contrasts in diction


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The Man He Killed

Read the poem, The Man He Killed.

Note how the speaker puzzles about

the irony of killing men in war who

might have been neighbors or friends.

However, the speaker grows more

uncertain of his attitude.

Repetition & punctuation guide thereader to the speakers shifting tone.


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DIDLS

Diction the connotation/word

choice

Images vivid appeals through the

senses

Details facts included/omitted

Language overall use/ level

Syntax


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