TONE

Pitiporn Prachayamongkol

What is tone?
Tone is the viewpoint of a writer on a particular
subject or feeling about what they have written.
Tone can be formal, informal, serious, comic,
sarcastic, sad, and cheerful etc.
Tone is not explained directly.

For example
1.) Father: We are going on a vacation.
Son: Thats great!!!
--The tone of sons response is very cheerful.
2.) Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?
--This has an aggressive tone
3.) The sun is shining brightly in a meadow, let's go out
and play!
--The tone of this persons happy or excited.

The road not taken by Robert Frost

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and IFrost tells
us
about
his
past
with
a
I took the one less traveled by,
sigh, this gives the above lines an
And that has made all the difference.
unhappy tone. This tone leads us into
thinking that the speaker in the poem
had to make a difficult choice.