quality feeling or attitude expressed by the words that someone uses in speaking or writing The School by Donald Barthelme I dont know why they died they just died Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasnt the best ID: 793944
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Slide1
TOne
Gabrielle Winters
Slide2a
quality, feeling, or attitude expressed by the words that
someone
uses in speaking or
writing
The
School
by Donald
Barthelme
:
“I
don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best
.”
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/examples-of-tone-in-a-
story.html
Charlotte’s Web: “Nothing
can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall. Christmas will come, and the snows of
winter.
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Slide3-The lady walked leisurely through the park.
-The lady quickly stomped through the park.
Slide4How
is the second sentence different from the first?
What
changed?
What
feeling does each sentence give you?
What
tone words do you notice?
What
is the
tone
of each sentence?
Slide5Use your tone words handout to fill in the blanks
The dog barked at the squirrel
(fill in a tone
word [verb]
here)
outside the door.
The lady thought the dog was barking at her and
(fill
in a tone word [verb] here
).
Slide6What
feeling does each sentence give you?
What
tone words do you notice?
What
is the
tone
of each sentence?
How
is each example different from the other?
What
changed?
What
feeling does each example give you?
Slide7Help me Revise these sentences
The dog barked at the squirrel.
The woman went to visit her friend.
The student freaked out about their homework assignment.
Slide8Revise these sentences in your groups
Ms. Winters taught the lesson.
The principle punished the student for being bad.
My mom called me to talk about her yoga class.
Slide9Exit Question:
Define
tone &/or write sentence with a specific tone and identify what tone used