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Style. Tone and Transitions. Tone/Mood. Tone is the author’s attitude toward the writing Talking down to the reader as an advisor Talking down to the reader as a satirist Talking eye-to-eye with the reader as an equal Talking up to the reader as a subordinate or supplicant

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  1. Style Tone and Transitions

  2. Tone/Mood • Tone is the author’s attitude toward the writing • Talking down to the reader as an advisor • Talking down to the reader as a satirist • Talking eye-to-eye with the reader as an equal • Talking up to the reader as a subordinate or supplicant • Formal or colloquial • Positive/negative/neutral • Mood is the feeling the reader gets from the piece.

  3. Examples • Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans. • He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot. • She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

  4. Transitions • Contributes to Cohesion • Consistency • Of subject • Of tense • Of voice (passive, active) • Numerical (first, second, third…) • Sequential (then, finally, next…) • Additional (furthermore, moreover, again…) • Illustrative (for example, for instance, to illustrate)

  5. Transitions (cont.) • Alternative (on the other hand, nevertheless, still…) • Cause and Effect (therefore, consequently, accordingly…) • Affirmation (of course, obviously, indeed…) • Repetition • Repeated sentence structures

  6. "At first a toy, then a mode of transportation for the rich, the automobile was designed as man's mechanical servant. Later it became part of the pattern of living."

  7. "The way I write is who I am, or have become, yet this is a case in which I wish I had instead of words and their rhythms a cutting room to show you simultaneously all the frames of memory that come to me now.Thisis a case in which I need more than words to find the meaning. This is a case in which I need whatever it is I think or believe to be penetrable, if only for myself."

  8. "Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe that their husband is about to return."

  9. SchoolEdwin Miller • Go to our web page under “Handouts and Homework” and click on “School” • Read the short story and analyze it for its tone and transitions. • 1. What is the tone/mood? • 2. is it positive/negative/neutral? • 3. What tone word describes it? • 4. What pieces of diction relate the tone? • 5. Identify the transitions. • 6. Explain why the author chose the tone and transitions used.

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