Tone Words 1-24 Flashcards
Apathetic
Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern ( her lids were weighted with sleep and it cost her an effort to raise them)
Accusatory
Charging of wrong doing (accuses of shaving) (Zeena accuses Mattie, towel is gone)
Awe
Solemn wonder
Bitter
Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief (no way out-none… Prisoner for life
Cynical
Questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
Condescension; condescending
A feeling of superiority (uppity diction, Ned)
Callous
Unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others (Zeena says that Ethan grudges her the money to get her health back, when she lost it nursing his mother)
Contemplative
Studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
Critical
Finding fault (Zeena says “ you’re a bad girl Mattie silver” after she finds about about the pickle dish
Choleric
Hot, tempered, easily angered ( when Ethan almost hits Zeena)
Contemptuous
Showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect
Caustic
Intense use of sarcasm, stinging, biting
Conventional
Lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality (couldn’t find example)
Disdainful
Scornful
Didactic
Author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
Derisive
Ridiculing, mocking
Earnest
Intense, a sincere state of mind
Erudite
Learned, polished, scholarly
Fanciful
Using the imagination (talks about how his life could be with Mattie)
Forthright
Directly frank without hesitation
Gloomy
Darkness, sadness, rejection
Haughty
Proud and vain to the point of arrogance
Indignant
Marked by anger aroused by injustice
Intimate
Very familiar
