Tone Analysis

Knock, knock, and then I hide under my brother bed and he pretends to sleep. I was so anxious, that I started to get anxious and wanted to vomit, but I manage to hold it in. Beside by being nervous and nochious, her feet smell like a football locker room, and she is wearing my mom slippers. How dare you, she can’t wear my mom slippers with that gruesome feet. What her feet are purple, what is she. After she left we went down stairs to spy

He glanced out of the window, watching the sky turning from a deep blue shade to a clear, blue, breezy morning. ‘A good day.’ He made a mental note to himself. The sun baked through the curtains, sharpening his enormous shadow. He thought of that fussy factory owner and sighed.

“The Sound of a Voice” by David Henry Hwang is a one act play telling the story of two characters, Man and Woman. These characters both live alone and isolated. Woman is rumored to be a witch, and Man is a soldier without a purpose who comes in hope of killing Woman. They both have a fear of silence and love. These unusual fears result in their fatal downfall. This play explores deep emotions, such as the fear of silence that Man and Woman share which pushes Woman to commit suicide. A fear of intimacy, felt exceptionally strong by Man, results in unfortunate timing leading to Woman’s death. Loneliness displayed by both characters is the underlying cause of the outcome. These feelings play together to contribute to Man and Woman’s tragic love.

You wake up after a good night’s rest and receive a kind “good morning” greeting from your parents. You enjoy a warm breakfast with your family.

The kitchen was quiet as he opened the door. Through the glass window near the sink, he could see the sun was just starting to rise from behind the once dark horizon. A rooster crowed from outside, signaling the start of the day. A fresh, cool breeze floated in through the open window. On the table was a very small dark wooden bed which had a small heart craved into the centerpiece. It also had a small white mattress, a red and blue sheets, and a beautiful down quilt.

The sun was kissing the horizon; the day was just beginning, and the sweet sounds of the birds morning sound had awakened me. I was sitting in the same spot I do day after day, happy and well rested. I awoke from my peaceful slumber with a large, clanging chime that echoed off the walls and the roof. The sounds of footsteps stomped down the stairs, and there, as always, was Todd. And as he always does, he shuffled his way to the kitchen and turned on the coffee. Finally, as the aroma of burnt coffee grounds filled the air, a new day had begun.

The sun shines through the small basement window of the house. It’s early morning beams piercing across the face of a young girl as she sleeps. It takes awhile for the brightness to penetrate her green eyes but when it does she stretches lazily under the covers closing those eyes for yet one more moment of dreams. She suddenly bolts upright as she remembers what today is.

     There isn’t really a tone in the book. The author writes as if she was more informational. I think the book is actually a little bit suspenseful because when I read it I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next.

In essay A the tone is harsh and frustrated. I think that the writers tone weakens the overall argument. When the writer states that advertising companies pay school districts to advertise in their hallways, he is weakening his argument by stating something good that comes out of advertising in schools. also the writer stats that it is wrong to force ads upon children in school, but the writer also stated that ads are seen everywhere, which contradicts his point. Lastly not using correct tense throughout the passage causes confusion, weakening the articles overall effectiveness.

Someone taps my shoulder gently, and I scribble my notes furiously so I can be done when I turn around. I cautiously look up at the front of the room, and the

The morning is calm. It is steaming under the slightly overcast sky. George wakes up to the sound of the rooster’s crow. Crooks comes into the room, “Mornin’ George,” he says. “Morning,” George replies. Candy is already dressed and working outside. Putting on his work clothes,

“I’m sad!” says the person in a happy manner with a huge smile on their face. Now what’s wrong with this sentence? If an individual were sad, they would not be shouting that out, especially not with a smile on their face. So what would need to be changed to make this rhetorical situation make sense? The tone of course, so let’s try this again. “I’m sad…” says the person burying their face in a pillow. Now that’s more like it. In “Issue 3” of Writing Identities, the author states that “Your tone should engage your audience in a way that will invite them to feel receptive to your message.” This meaning, that a person’s tone needs to make sense, it needs to match up with the situation of which

I headed home. Once there, I heard the arguing of my brother and mom. Walking up the stairs to my room, I lay on my bed and read my only book again.

Towards the beginning of the poem, the wife says, “Then I found my own husband was ill-starred, sad at heart, pretending, plotting murder behind a smiling face” (177 ln 18-20). The tone from this line is hostile and almost condemning. Lines 41-44 use the same phrase “smiling face”, but the tone is different. This time, young men are almost being told to hide their feelings behind a smiling face. I am wondering if there is a reason she would condemn her husband from “pretending” but also enforce the idea. Another reasoning behind the tone change could simply be from her explaining the situation young men have to deal with while at war. My main question from this quote is to find out whether or not the wife wants men, specifically her husband,

I can’t control myself. My legs carry me into the dining room. I pick of the lamp and go back into the living room, then shut the blinds, and finally approach my mother with my lamp in hand.