Word Choice/Tone/Mood

List 4 ways an author develops tone?

Is Tone directly stated?

How do you find the tone of a text?

• Read between the lines

• look for the main idea

• Understand the author's pov

• all of the above

What is the mood of a story?

Explain author's purpose

How is the author's purpose reflected?

• when the author gives his opinion

• The way the author writes about the topic

• in the author's background

• Both b and c

Explain the denotation of a word?

Explain the connotation of a word?

My grandmother is thrifty. She never throws out old clothes and saves all her jars to reuse as glasses.

 

How would the meaning of the sentence change if the author used "cheap" instead of the word "thrifty"?

• The writer would seem unafraid

• The grandmother would seem evil

• The writer would seem unfair

• The grandmother would seem ungenerous

Read the following passage:

"How could you do this?" the painter screeched. "How could you paint that wall blue? It should clearly be orange!"

 

How would the meaning of the sentence change if the author used the word "whimpered" instead of the word "screeched"?

• The painter would seem more powerful

• The painter would seem more joyful

• The painter would seem more intelligent

• The painter would seem more pathetic