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Friday, September 16, 2011

Reader's log Tone

Overall feeling or effect created by a writer's use of words.

Serious
Mock serious
Humorous
Satiric (sarcasm)

Tone is primarily conveyed through diction (words), point of view (narrator), syntax (style of writing with phrase, clauses, sentence lengths) , and level of formality.

Reader's log

Your name:
Title of Book:
Author:
Genre:
Length of time reading this week:

What is the tone of your book?

8+ sentences that give examples and explanation of the tone.

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