Tone Definitions Sets 3&4

Question 1

Somber

Answer 1

Extremely serious, grave, and depressing

Question 2

Satiric

Answer 2

Taunting, cutting, and biting

Question 3

Urgent

Answer 3

Requiring immediate action or attention

Question 4

Mock-Heroic

Answer 4

Imitation or burlesque of something important

Question 5

Diffident

Answer 5

Lacking confidence in one’s own abilities, worth, or fitness; shy.

Question 6

Ironic

Answer 6

Conveying a mean opposite of its literal meaning, sarcastic.

Question 7

Petty

Answer 7

Of little or no importance or consequence

Question 8

Elegiac

Answer 8

Expressing sorrow or lamentation.

Question 9

Disdainful

Answer 9

Scornful, contemptuous, naughty

Question 10

Lugubrious

Answer 10

Exaggeratdely mournful

Question 11

Insipid

Answer 11

Uninteresting, bland

Question 12

Impartial

Answer 12

Fair, not biased

Question 13

Moralistic

Answer 13

Characterized by the attempt to regulate the morals of others

Question 14

Taunting

Answer 14

Provoking, mocking, ridiculing

Question 15

Turgid

Answer 15

Inflated, overblown, pompous.

Question 16

Sardonic

Answer 16

Biting, contemptuous, sneering

Question 17

Insolent

Answer 17

Boldly rude or disrespectful

Question 18

Effusive

Answer 18

Unduly demonstrative, overly emotional

Question 19

Sentimental

Answer 19

Nostalgic, weakly emotional

Question 20

Contentious

Answer 20

Quarrelsome, characterized by argument or controversy