Tone Practice

What is the tone of this statement? This place needs some repairs, but I'm sure the landlord will be making improvements sometime soon.

• optimistic

• bitter

• humorous

• angry

What is the tone of this statement? When we move away, we are planning to release 300 cockroaches and 5 mice, so we can leave this place exactly as we found it.

• nostalgic

• cheerful

• optimistic

• humorous

What is the tone of this statement?

This is the apartment we live in. It was built in 1975. It provides shelter.

• factual

• angry

• cruel

• joyous

What is the tone of this statement?

Please note in your checkbook how much money you spent using your ATM card today.

• sympathetic

• sarcastic

• straightforward

• threatening

What is the tone of this statement?

When are you going to take the garbage out? Sometime next year, maybe?

• sad

• sarcastic

• loving

• cheerful

What is the tone of this statement?

Remember when we used to have campfires and roast marshmallows. Those were the best days.

• amused

• bitter

• nostalgic

• intense

Which tone is represented in the following passage? She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket.

• soothing

• annoyed

• distrustful

• tired

Which tone is represented in the following passage? Ugh! Do I really have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again.

• enthusiastic

• nostalgic

• optimistic

• peeved

What is the tone of the following passage? The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• eerie

• sarcastic

• passionate

• humorous

What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader

• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject

• The time and place of the story

• The summary of events in the story