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| How many times have you been told, or said to someone, "Hey watch your tone!"? Growing up I definitely heard that phrase and eventually used it on my son, too. People can often sense our mood or intention by the inflection in our speaking voice. As writers, we have to use adjectives to get that message across. |
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The character’s tone in creative writing is similar to the tone of voice we use when speaking to another person. Words typically have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation. Tone words help us show whether our characters feel positive, negative, or neutral about what they’re experiencing in a scene. We need to think about what we want to achieve. What is the overall tone we want to set? Is there a specific feeling or mood we want to evoke? Therefore, we need to find the best words to deliver the story or poem we are trying to write.
Here are some that evoke certain tones:
AMUSED
"people looked on with amused curiosity"
FORMAL
"he is formal in manner and clothing"
PESSIMISTIC
"he was pessimistic about the outcome"
INDIGNANT
"he was indignant at being the object of suspicion"
OUTRAGED
"he was outraged at this attempt to take his victory away from him"
ECSTATIC
"ecstatic fans filled the stadium"
REVERENT
"he approached the altar with reverent silence"
VIBRANT
"she was vibrant with anger"
A quick note about 'tone' vs. 'voice'. These two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, but there is a difference.
Tone indicates a writer or character’s attitude toward a certain topic or situation. In nonfiction, tone words indicate what the writer thinks. In fiction, tone words help to set the mood, showing whether a particular situation or interaction is tense, happy, sad, etc.
Voice, on the other hand, refers to the overall personality of a work. A writer’s voice may be sarcastic, informative, friendly, or something else entirely.
You can remember the difference this way: 'Tone' can change from sentence to sentence, while 'voice' stays consistent.
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