What Is the Author’s Tone?
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What Is the Author’s Tone?
Tone worksheet for Grades 6 to 8: read twelve short passages and name the writer’s tone, such as playful, angry, nostalgic, hopeful, sarcastic or admiring. Four tones a sheet, three passages each, with an answer key.
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Name a writer's tone, the attitude the words show toward the subject (playful, angry, nostalgic, sarcastic), and the mood of a passage, the feeling its setting and details give the reader (peaceful, eerie, tense).
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