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TONE Practice Worksheet
Tone is the author/narrator's attitude towards the text. Always use your tone handout to select the correct tone.
Just like writers use word choice and vivid imagery to set tone and mood, movie makers use dialogue, editing, sound effects, music and lighting to establish a certain tone within their films. If you were making a comedy, what tone would you want to set and how would you do it? ________________________________________________
Watch two video trailers over the movie Mary Poppins. Look for and record any words or images that stand out. Each trailer has a very different tone. You will write a chunk paragraph explaining the tone for each trailer.
Mary Poppins Original Trailer
What words/images/ stand out? (list at least 3)
How does the speaker feel about the text? This is the
tone. How do you know? Answer in a chunk paragraph.
Mary Poppins Re-Cut Trailer
What words/images/ stand out? (list at least 3)
How does the speaker feel about the text? This is the tone. How do you know? Answer in a chunk paragraph.
"Freedom," John Ruskin You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is loaded with sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not?-you will say to him, "Choose freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom of choice; it forms your character-your individuality! If you take the wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before the day is over, but you will have acquired the dignity of a free child."
- What is the speaker’s tone in this passage (consider his apparent feelings about young children having freedom)? Underline three words that impact the tone. A) sincere/honest B) sarcastic/mocking C) joyful/rejoicing
The Way Things Work, David Macaulay The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei. Fission starts when a fast- moving neutron strikes a nucleus. The nucleus cannot take in the extra neutron, and the whole nucleus breaks apart into two smaller nuclei.
- What is Macaulay’s tone in this passage? Underline three words that impact the tone. A) uncertain/confused B) scared/apprehensive C) factual/unbiased
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley "I am not mad," [the monster] cried energetically, "the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth. I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race."
- The speaker in this passage is the monster. What is the speaker’s tone? Underline three words that impact the tone.
A) sorry/remorseful B) angry/vindictive C) humorous/happy Dave Barry's Greatest Hits, Dave Barry You never found out why these men spend so much time shaking hands [in beer commercials]. Maybe shaking hands is just their simple straightforward burly masculine American patriotic way of saying to each other: "Floyd, I am truly sorry I drank all that beer last night and went to the bathroom in your glove compartment."
- What is the speaker’s tone in explaining the relationships between men as they are portrayed in beer commercials? Underline three words that impact the tone. A) serious B) humorous C) angry
