Frederick Douglass writes in his Narrative: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man." What is his tone?

Jane Austen opens Pride and Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." What is the narrator's tone?

Wounded by Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio says: "I am hurt. / A plague o' both your houses. I am sped." What is his tone?

In Walden, Thoreau writes: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." What is his tone?

Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" begins: "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?... How, then, am I mad?" What is the narrator's tone?

In Frankenstein, the creature tells Victor: "I am malicious because I am miserable... Shall I respect man when he condemns me?" What is his tone?

Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" opens: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." What mood do these lines create in the reader?

Dickens writes in A Tale of Two Cities: "There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none." What mood does this create in the reader?

Whitman writes: "I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, / Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, / The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam." What mood does this create?

In Walden, Thoreau writes: "This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore... the note of the whippoorwill is borne on the rippling wind from over the water." What mood does this create?

Jack London opens White Fang: "Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees... seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light." What mood does this create in the reader?

"The coach ___ into the locker room after the loss." Which verb makes the coach sound most defeated?

"The new library is a ___ building." Which adjective gives the sentence the most admiring tone?

"The manager ___ the employees' complaints." Which verb makes the manager sound most dismissive?

Four versions of one sentence report the same race result. Which version makes the speaker sound most reluctant to give credit?

"My grandfather kept every receipt he ever got; he was ___." Which word describes him affectionately rather than critically?

A narrator tells a family argument in one unbroken sentence of ninety words, clause after clause joined by "and". What does that syntax do to the passage?

A description of a factory town uses almost no abstract words: soot, brick, iron, ash, rope, smoke. What does that diction do to the passage?

A writer describes a county fair in warm, sensory diction, and readers finish the passage feeling wistful about their own childhoods. What is that feeling in the reader called?

A paragraph about a funeral ends each of its four sentences with the same phrase: "and still it rained." What does that repetition do to the passage?