ELA-Author-Tone-LNF

Author's Craft - Tone - Print - Literary Nonfiction Resources
Explains the import role words and tone play in literature, with examples of different tones and the meaning they bring to each piece and information on how words and tone help readers gain a sense of place in a story.
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 * ** //Setting the Style: wording and tone,// Bodden, Valarie, 2009. (Art of Creative Prose Series) **


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 * //Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter//, Adeline Yen Mah. YA Memoir. Copyright 2001. ISBN-10: 0440228654, ISBN-13: 978-0440228653. The initial tone of the book is not unlike the "Cinderella" fairy tale in all its iterations. She is the hated ister. As in many Confucian cultures. The Prince Charming tone, however, is one of the emerging tones in Western Literature about Oriental cultures: education.
 * //Night//**//,//** Elie Weisel. Memoir. Copyright 2008. ISBN-10: 0553272535, ISBN-13: 978-0553272536. The tone of //Night// focuses on the human consition under extraordinary stress. Anotherr tonal quality is the resilience of the humans that can oversome racism and inhumane confusion of the psyche.
 * //Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson//**,** Mitch Albom. Memoir. Copyright 2002. ISBN-10: 076790592X, ISBN-13: 978-0767905923. This novel set a tone of wisdom received, refined and inforrmed again. The tone moves to one of respect and love between student and teacher.
 * Any editorial op-ed column by [|Leonard Pitts]. Mr. Pitt's columns are witty and sometimes sardonic in tone. His liberal positions are mitigated by a broad view in choice of words to brings some sense of objectivity and self-deprecation.
 * //[|U.S. Presidential Inauguration Addresses]// (Kennedy, Obama, etc.). Various tones run through Presidential Inaugural addresses. Perhaps the most famous of which is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. They set tones through words of patriotism, understanding, and rallying the nation together. Often the arts are mentioned as well as all types of education.
 * //[|"I Will Fight No More,"]// surrender speech by Chief Joseph. This short speech advancing surrender to bring order to an utterly defeated tribe and to provide a chance to unite family an other tribe members.The tone of utter defeat also addresses the concept of teh tome of utter destruction as well.
 * //The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man// by James Weldon Johnson. Memoir. Edited with an Introduction by William L. Andrews. ISBN:0140184023. Establishes tone for a man who decides that the South he moves through is not his experience before a youthful trip. A tone for the social life of the deep South is established through eye-witness accounts and the actions of characters.
 * //[|"Gettysburg Address,"]// speech by Abraham Lincoln. The famously short speech sets the tone for forgiveness, bravery, union, and life after battle. In an ironic twist the tone has lasted well beyond the time Lincoln suggested that it might.