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Tone

Tone. Close Reading - Analysis. Today’s aims. Revise how to recognise a writer’s tone Match techniques to different tones Revise approach to answers Look at some model answers Practise example questions. Tone. A modulation of the voice expressing a feeling or mood

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Tone

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  1. Tone Close Reading - Analysis

  2. Today’s aims • Revise how to recognise a writer’s tone • Match techniques to different tones • Revise approach to answers • Look at some model answers • Practise example questions

  3. Tone A modulation of the voice expressing a feeling or mood General character e.g. tone of a conversation Intonation on a word or phrase used to add functional meaning

  4. Recognising tone • Two active thinking questions! • Write the questions and jot down some ideas – 2 mins… • How does a writer convey his or her attitude through the tone of his or her writing? • Why is Tone an Analysis type question?

  5. Where to start! • Start with the REGISTER (register – variety of language determined by degree of formality and choice of vocabulary etc) – so, is it formal or informal? • Then make the simple differentiation of positive or negative – does it seem for or against? • Now refine your thinking to the specific tone – in what way is it positive or negative?

  6. Tongue-in-cheek Scornful Anger Humorous Sarcastic Distaste Flippant Nostalgic Admiring Satirical Urgent Commands Emotive language Puns Exclamations Description Understatement Exaggeration Climax Anticlimax Inverted commas Rhetorical questions Short sentences Task: match techniques to these commonly used tones; pick 2 and explain more fully why these techniques are suited to creating that tone

  7. Basics • As always: identify and explain ( the question sometimes separates this out for you – read the next part of the question to make sure) • The writer’s tone is ______. This is evident through _____ such as ‘QUOTE’, which __________________.

  8. I am fed up listening to scaremongers about the E-coli virus telling me my child should never visit a farm, or come into contact with animals. I am weary of organisations that are dedicated to promulgating the idea that threat and dangers to children lurk everywhere. The tone is fed up because she is fed up ‘listening to scaremongers’ The tone is sarcastic because the writer is exaggerating that children should never touch animals The tone is frustration. This is evident through the use of repetition of ‘I am…’, which suggests that she keeps coming up against the same attitudes and is frustrated by this. Identify the tone of these lines

  9. Practice question 1 But Gavin Dalzell, of Lesmahagow, and Thomas McCall, of Kilmarnock, had both seen MacMillan’s contraption and shamelessly sold their own version for £7 each. In the 1840s, £7 was worth well over £1000 in today’s money and they made a tidy sum. How does the writer make clear his attitude towards Dalzell and McCall? 2A

  10. Practice question 2 • My subject this week is one that has troubled me for some years…the bin bag and its untold contribution to the history and development of the world motor industry. • Explain the tone of the sentence. 2A

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