11 September 2008 @ 07:17 pm
TONE
Language to describe tone
Positive tone/attitude: lighthearted, hopeful, exuberant, enthusiastic, complimentary, confident, cheery, optimistic, loving, passionate, amused, elated, sympathetic, compassionate, proud
Negative tone/attitude: angry, disgusted, outraged, accusing, condemnatory, furious, wrathful, inflammatory, irritated, indignant, threatening
Irony/Sarcasm: scornful, disdainful, contemptuous, sarcastic, cynical, critical, facetious, patronizing, satiric, condescending, sardonic, mock-heroic, bantering, irreverent, mock-serious, taunting, insolent, pompous, ironic, flippant, grotesque
Sorrow/Fear/Worry: sombre, elegiac, melancholic, sad, disturbed, mournful, solemn, serious, apprehensive, concerned, hopeless, staid, resigned
Neutral tone/attitude words: formal, objective, incredulous, nostalgic, ceremonial, candid, shocked, reminiscent, restrained, clinical, baffled, sentimental, detached, objective, disbelieving, questioning, urgent, instructive, matter-of-fact, admonitory, learned, factual, didactic, informative, authoritative
Developing a Tone Vocabulary
angry sharp upset contemptous boring afraid happy complimentary joyful allusive sweet vexed tired bitter dreamy restrained proud dramatic sad condescending urgent joking poignant detached confused childish peaceful mocking
objective vibrant frivolous audacious shocking giddy provocative sentimental fanciful cold hollow sympathetic silly apologetic humorous horrific sarcastic nostalgic zealous irreverent benevolent seductive candid concerned pitiful didactic satiric whimsical dramatic learned informative sombre urgent confident mock-heroic objective diffident ironic petty factual restrained elegiac disdainful lugubrious candid pedantic indignant bantering flippant patronizing facetious clinical mock-serious inflammatory benevolent burlesque detached cynical incisive allusive scornful effusive fanciful colloquial compassionate impartial insipid pretentious vibrant irreverent sentimental moralistic sympathetic
Attitude Words
1. accusatory: charging of wrongdoing
2. apathetic: indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
3. awe: solemn wonder
4. bitter exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
5. cynical: questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people
6. condescension: a feeling of superiority
7. callous: unfeeling, insensitive to feelings
8. contemplative: studying, thinking, reflecting on the issue
9. critical: finding fault
10. choleric: hot-tempered, easily angered
11. contemptuous: showing or feeling that something is worthless; lacking respect
12. caustic: intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting
13. conventional: lacking spontaneity, originality and individuality
14. disdainful: scornful
15. didactic: author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
16. derisive: ridiculing, mocking
17. earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind
18. erudite: learned, polished, scholarly
19. fanciful: using the imagination
20. forthright: directly frank without hesitation
21. gloomy: darkness, sadness, rejection
22. haughty: proud and vain to the point of arrogance
23. indignant: marked by anger aroused by injustice
24. intimate: very familiar
25. judgmental: authoritative and often critical
26. jovial: happy
27. lyrical: expressing inner feelings, emotional, full of images, songlike
28. matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions, not fanciful or emotional
29. mocking: treating with contempt or ridicule
30. morose: gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent
31. malicious: purposely hurtful
32. objective: unbiased view
33. optimistic: hopeful, cheerful
34. obsequious: polite and obedient only for hope of gain or favor
35. patronizing: air of condescension
36. pessimistic: seeing the worst side of things
37. quizzical: odd, eccentric, amusing
38. ribald: offensive in speech, gesture
39. reverent: treating a subject with honor, respect
40. ridiculing: slightly contemptuous banter
41. reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts
42. sarcastic: sneering, caustic
43. sardonic: scornfully and bitterly sarcastic
44. sincere: without deceit or pretense, genuine
45. solemn: deeply earnest, grave
46. sanguine: optimistic, cheerful
47. whimsical: odd, queer, fantastic
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