Purpose Terms
Tone Terms
Purpose Practice
Tone Practice
vocab
100
the author's purpose for front-page newspaper articles, legal documents, reference materials, museum brochures
What is the author's purpose, to inform?
100
What does the tone term "critical" mean?
What is severely judging people or things?
100
What is the author's purpose for the terms of service for using the social networking site, Facebook?
What is "to inform"?
100
“Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats,” William Jefferson Clinton said during his presidency. a. subjective b. objective
What is subjective?
100
What does the tone term "bitter" mean?
What is a sour reaction?
200
the author's purpose for textbooks, how-to manuals, technical guides
What is the author's purpose, to instruct?
200
What does the tone term "optimistic" mean?
What is having a positive or bright view of the future?
200
What is the author's purpose for the list of ingredients on the side of a candy bar wrapper?
What is "to inform"?
200
No one should have the right to blare loud music from a car’s sound system. a. neutral b. biased
What is biased?
200
Name 2 disapproving tone terms.
What are critical, pessimistic, intolerant, gloomy, and bitter?
300
the author's purpose for ads, commercials, editorials, movie critics' reviews, political speeches
What is the author's purpose, to persuade?
300
What does the tone term "pessimistic" mean?
What is having a negative outlook?
300
What is the author's purpose for a car bumper sticker warning people to "Click it or Ticket" in reference to wearing a seatbelt?
What is "to persuade"?
300
the tone for: The Way Things Work by David Macaulay "The kind of nuclear reaction that happens inside a nuclear reactor is called nuclear fission. The fuel is uranium or plutonium, two very heavy elements which have many protons and neutrons in their nuclei." What is Macaulay’s tone in this passage? A) uncertain/confused B) scared/apprehensive C) factual/unbiased
What is C) factual/unbiased?
300
Name 2 supportive tone terms.
What are encouraging, optimistic, sympathetic, enthusiastic, and convincing?
400
the author's purpose for novels, jokes, poems, gossip columns, comic books
What is the author's purpose, to entertain?
400
What is the tone term that means using words that are the OPPOSITE of what you really mean?
What is ironic?
400
What is the author's purpose for a fictional novel about a family trying to stick together and survive during the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930's?
What is "to entertain"?
400
According to the principle of insurable interest, no one can be insured unless he or she stands to suffer financially or emotionally when a loss occurs. The main reason for this requirement is to permit measurement of the extent of the loss. --From Megginson et al., Business a. awestruck b. intimate c. formal d. pathetic
What is formal?
400
What does the tone term "tongue-in-cheek" mean?
What is said or done seriously but really meant as a joke?
500
a question a reader should ask himself/herself in order to determine the author's purpose
What is "Why did the author write this?" or What was he or she trying to accomplish?"
500
3 tone words that are synonyms for "objective"
What are neutral, straightforward, indifferent, serious, and instructional?
500
What is the author's purpose for a section in a history textbook describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930's?
What is "to instruct"?
500
"Freedom," John Ruskin You will send your child, will you, into a room where the table is loaded with sweet wine and fruit-some poisoned, some not?-you will say to him, "Choose freely, my little child! It is so good for you to have freedom of choice; it forms your character-your individuality! If you take the wrong cup or the wrong berry, you will die before the day is over, but you will have acquired the dignity of a free child." What is Ruskin’s tone in this passage (consider his apparent feelings about young children having freedom)? A) sincere/honest B) sarcastic/mocking C) joyful/rejoicing
What is B) sarcastic/mocking?
500
Name three tone terms that could be used to describe the tone often found in textbooks, reference materials, and news magazines?
What are objective, neutral, straightforward, indifferent, serious, informational, and instructional?
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