ELA Tone Flashcard

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What is the tone of the following passage?
Every time I go to my childhood home, I walk by the stump of the willow tree where I used to read each Saturday morning. I remember how the branches used to sway in the cool breeze as I immersed myself in the world of book after book. Through a stream of tears, I stared at the stump, feeling my heart fill with sadness for its loss. I longed for those simpler days sitting under my tree.

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nostalgic

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What is the tone of the following passage?
The girl remembered little from the raid in which she had been captured. She knew her parents had been killed. She had no idea what had happened to her brothers and sisters. Much of what she had experienced had been so horrible that she had simply shut it out of her mind….”
Options: sorrowful, nostalgic, enthusiastic, ominous

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sorrowful

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What is the tone of the following passage?
Be sure to bring your kids to the new production of the show of Spongebob! Come experience Nickelodeon’s endearing, absorbent, animated oddball optimist SpongeBob SquarePants and his surreal undersea habitat. “The SpongeBob Musical,” is an inventive, promising musical with a terrifically talented cast. You won’t want to miss this one!

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enthusiastic