Choose one of these tone words:
Love Irritation Despair
Weariness
Satisfaction Boredom Disbelief Suspicion
Joy Ambivalence
Indifference
Sarcasm Loneliness Embarrassment
Write a sentence or sentences in the spirit of this literary tone using the
writer's tools: imagery, diction, syntax, figurative and ironic devices
(without directly using the tone word,) and building to the dialogue, "I will. "
Ex.:
Determination: The salesman's jaw jutted out, his eyes glinted steel. He looked
at his stack of Bibles and the endless rows of houses ahead, "I
will."
Ex.:
Indolence: The boy lay in bed thinking about the mountain of chores his mother
had laid out for him that Saturday. He shut his eyes again as he heard the
maternal feet padding down the hallway towards his room. He yawned, "I
will."
Post your submission on the class discussion board. In a reply to the
original comment, each student should look at two other students’ sentences,
guess the tone and discuss how the tone is created (point of yiew, diction,
syntax, imagery, figurative devices, symbols, ironic devices, rhetorical
devices, and sonic devices.)
