TONE! Clean your room! Clean your room! Clean your room!

Analysis of Tone Aggressivesentimentalmockingcynical sarcasticsatiricalindifferent 1. We know that what is really meant is the opposite of what is said. 2. Seeming to believe the worst, having little positive to say. 3. Making fun of something in order to have it changed. 4.Sympathy which is not thought out or really justified 5.Showing contempt or scorn for something by ridiculing it. 6.Showing no interest 7.Passionately describing an injustice or wrong.

ANSWERS 1. We know that what is really meant is the opposite of what is said. SARCASTIC 2. Seeming to believe the worst, having little positive to say. CYNICAL 3. Making fun of something in order to have it changed. SATIRICAL 4.Sympathy which is not thought out or really justified SENTIMENTAL 5.Showing contempt or scorn for something by ridiculing it. MOCKING 6.Showing no interest INDIFFERENT 7.Passionately describing an injustice or wrong. AGGRESSIVE

What is tone? What is the difference between these tones?

TONE, TONE, TONE Tone refers to the way something is said, not what is said or its meaning. It refers to a particular attitude or meaning conveyed by the writer.

The Formula 1.Identify the tone (no marks if you simply write sarcastic, humorous, and informal.) 2.Include evidence from the text to support your choice 3.Comment on how the tone shows this feeling, and what effect it has.

EXAMPLE Yet Ireland has managed to attract its young entrepreneurs back to help drive a burgeoning economy. We must try to do likewise. We need immigrants. We cannot grow the necessary skills fast enough to fill the gap sites. We need people with energy and commitment and motivation, three characteristics commonly found among those whose circumstances prompt them to make huge sacrifices to find a new life. Show how the writer uses tone to demonstrate her strength of feeling in these lines.

Yet Ireland has managed to attract its young entrepreneurs back to help drive a burgeoning economy. We must try to do likewise. We need immigrants. We cannot grow the necessary skills fast enough to fill the gap sites. We need people with energy and commitment and motivation, three characteristics commonly found among those whose circumstances prompt them to make huge sacrifices to find a new life. Show how the writer uses tone to demonstrate her strength of feeling in these lines.

A Question to think about? What does the repetition do to the tone of this passage?

And the answer is? The tone the writer uses her is demanding (or pleading). This is shown by the emphasis put on the words ‘need’ and ‘must’; by the repetition at the beginnings of sentences ‘We need’ ‘we must ‘we need.’ The tone suggests the writer’s strong view that action need to be taken now. The tone is further developed by the used of ‘and’ to emphasise the number of good qualities needed to get these off the ground.

HIGHER HW And we are certainly not mean: we may sometimes be cautious, for we have long memories of poverty; but we are just as often generous to a fault, We are not hypocritical, at least not very. We love nothing better than logical argument, so much so that, in Edinburgh at least, we are sometimes accused of even making love on a metaphysical level, which may account for the relatively static population. Show how the language of these lines contributes towards complex portrait of the Scots. You should consider tone or sentence structure or word choice.

ANSWER The tone is a self disapproval one, showing that the Scots are not content with a simple look at themselves. It is also critical. The use of ‘cautious’ instead of ‘mean’ is making meanness sound more respectable, but still admitting that in a way they are mean. Even in the generosity is seen as having something false about it. The use of ‘at least not very’ suggests that the writer knows that the Scots really are hypocritical.

As a class. Conditions varied from the miserable child-of-all-work, sleeping on a sack under the stairs, in bondage for a few coppers a week and her wretched keep, to the great magnate’s house steward, a prosperous member of the middle class. Comment on the tone of this passage.

Answer An emotive tone is used to present the plight of poor servants. The writer uses words or phrases expressing strong emotion; ‘miserable’ ‘wretched.’ He also contrasts the prosperity of the rich servants to stress the poverty of the unfortunate ones and arouse sympathy for them.

Comment on the tone. Hulk goes into action against heavies, flinging them about in slow motion. Like Bionic woman, 6 million dollar man and Wonder woman, Hulk does his action numbers at glacial speed. Emitting slow roars of rage, Hulk runs very slowly towards the enemy, who slowly attempt to make their escape. But no matter how slowly they run, hulk runs more slowly. Slowly he picks them up, gradually bangs their heads together, with a supreme burst of lethargy throws them through the side of the building. Hardly have the bricks floated to the ground before Hulk is changing back into spindly David Banner, with a sad cello weeping on the soundtrack. One thinks of Frankenstein's monster or the Hunchback of Notre Dame. One thinks of King Kong. One thinks one is being had. Why can’t the soft twit cut the soul searching and just enjoy his ability to swell up and clobber the foe?

ANSWER The tone is humourous throughout, mocking the techniques used in this TV show.