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    Words to use for TONE

    --the author’s attitude towards the subject

    sarcastic lighthearted playful


    amused humorous negative
    critical respectful angry
    detached optimistic impatient
    horrified pessimistic pitying
    caring disapproving positive
    self-satisfied confident ominous
    daring challenging serious
    bitter objective detached
    formal casual admiring
    sorrowful heartless approving
    calm unemotional no-nonsense
    useless foolish clinical
    friendly desperate patronizing
    hopeful apathetic
    Words to use for MOOD
    --the feeling the writer creates for the reader

    awed admiring calm


    tense peaceful pleasant
    frightened depressing thrilling
    mysterious fantastical cheerful
    lighthearted humorous informative
    contented uncertainty discouraging
    hopeful horrifying uncomfortable
    obligatory enthusiastic optimistic
    joyful confused relaxed
    funny anxious resigned
    awkward agitated excited
    silly guilty lonely
    jovial sorrowful serious
    sacred fearful secure
    respectful quiet warning
    pitiful angry disgusted
    desperate playful adventurous
    Tone Word List w/Definitions
    1. accusatory – charging of wrong doing
    2. apathetic – indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
    3. awe – solemn wonder
    4. bitter – exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
    5. cynical – questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
    6. condescension, condescending – a feeling of superiority
    7. callous – unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others
    8. contemptuous – showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks
    respect
    9. critical – finding fault
    10. choleric – hot-tempered, easily angered
    11. contemptuous – showing feeling that something is worthless or lacks
    respect
    12. caustic – intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
    13. conventional-lacking spontaneity, originality, individuality
    14. disdainful – scornful
    15. didactic – author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
    16. derisive – ridiculing, mocking
    17. earnest – intense, a sincere state of mind
    18. erudite – polished, learned, scholarly
    19. fanciful – using the imagination
    20. forthright – directly frank without hesitation
    21. gloomy – darkness, sadness, rejection
    22. haughty – proud and vain to the point of arrogance
    23. indignant – marked by anger aroused by injustice
    24. intimate – very familiar
    25. judgmental – authoritative and often having critical opinions
    26. jovial – happy
    27. lyrical – expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images;
    song-like
    28. matter-of-fact – accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
    29. mocking – treating with contempt or ridicule
    30. morose – gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
    31. malicious – purposely hurtful
    32. objective – an unbiased view, able to leave personal judgments aside
    33. optimistic – hopeful, cheerful
    34. obsequious – polite and obedient in order to gain something
    35. patronizing – air of condescension
    36. pessimistic – seeing the worst side of things; no hope
    37. quizzical – odd, eccentric, amusing
    38. ribald – offensive in speech or gesture
    39. reverent – treating a subject with honor or respect
    40. ridiculing – slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of
    41. reflective – illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
    42. sarcastic – sneering, caustic
    43. sardonic – scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
    44. satiric – ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
    45. sincere – without deceit or pretense; genuine
    46. solemn – deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
    47. sanguineous – optimistic, cheerful
    48. whimsical – odd, strange, fantastic; fun

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