Tone and Diction

cheerful, optimistic

• Sanguine or sanguineous

• Reverent

• Poignant

• Mocking

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

grimly mocking or cynical

• Sardonic

• Sentimental

• Cynical

• Contemptuous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

• audacious

• benevolent

• callous

• contemptuous

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

well meaning and kindly

• Benevolent

• Callous

• Contemptuous

• Cynical

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

being hardened and thickened; expressing or feeling no emotion

• Callous

• Derisive

• Mocking

• Poignant

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

• caustic

• derisive

• mocking

• sardonic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

showing contempt; scornful

• contemptuous

• derisive

• idactic

• irreverant

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

believing that people are motivated purely by self interest

• derisive

• cynical

• reverent

• sentimental

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

expressing contempt or ridicule

• derisive

• irreverent

• mocking

• poignant

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

• didactic

• poignant

• reverent

• audacious

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6