Tone words

Bantering

To speak or address in a witty and playful manner; an exchange of usually teasing or joking conversation

Effusive

Expressing great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm, lacking reserve, gushing.

Bantering

“Did you cut your hair yourself or did your hairdresser fall asleep while cutting your hair?”

Effusive

“She loved her friends with all her heart, constantly going on and on, about how amazing, kind, and lovely they were.”

Irreverent

Showing a lack or respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

Irreverent

“The citizens were shocked when the knight did not bow before his queen.”

Nostalgic

Longing for or thinking fondly of a past time or condition; reminiscing about the past/condition

Nostalgic

“Fond memories came rushing at her as she looked through the pictures from her past, causing a smile to appear on her face.”

Urbane

Normally polite or polished manner

Urbane

“The magazine’s target audience is women who are highly cultured and stylish.”

Patronizing

When someone’s attitude or speaking comes off friendly, but in reality they fell superior and show a superior attitude towards others

Patronizing

“Telling someone to “calm down”.
“You always make that mistake”

Biting

With a tone of wit or criticism; harsh, cruel, incisive, sarcastic

Biting

“Well if you’re such a genius, do it yourself,” he said with clenched teeth, his tone colder than the wind from the slammed door

Didactic

In the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way; pedantic; preachy

Didactic

“Are you stupid?” She remarked, “Anyone would know that the answer is C

Lugubrious

Expressing mourning or sorrow; often times ridiculous woful or pitiable

Lugubrious

A tall man with dark eye bags, at first spoke so quietly nobody could hear at the support group meeting

Sentimental

emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based on facts

Sentimental

Jim and Mary Smith had looked forward to the trip for months. They were returning to a city that they had fallen in love with during the five years it was their home over a decade ago.

Pretentious

Acting like you know more than you really do, or like you are more important than you really are

Pretentious

A writer’s application to a university, hoping to become a novelist. Knows hes the best

Elegiac

resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
remembering someone who has died or something in the past. Showing sadness. Expressing sorrow or lamentation

Elegiac

Both catch the film's haunting mood, bathed in summer sunshine but over hung with impending death.

Colloquial

writing like you speak. It is informal, conversational, and way in writing, to achieve informality

Colloquial

“She chickened out”
“It was actually kinda fun”

Diffident

“Self-conscious or modest; restrained or reserved in manner. THis refers to words or phrases that are spoken in a very unsure manner. The speaker is not confident in their ability to communicate the point

Diffident

Stuttering, and being unsure;

Incisive

Expressing an idea or opinion in a clear and direct way that shows good understanding of what is important

Incisive

The clever present was sharp and concise with his points of Climate Change

Insipid

Lacking flavor, not interesting or engaging

Insipid

The dog barked. The bedroom had a big bed.

Insolent

To be rude with an arrogant sense of disrespect. The speaker believes that they are above however they are speaking to and treats them as a subordinate

Insolent

A peer or teacher generally suggests a student make changes to their work and they reply with “I refuse to change my work. You know nothing and I could never be wrong.”

Turgid

Inflated, overblown or pompous, bombastic. It refers to words or phrases that have very little substance, but sound very smart or confident. They may be conveyed with a charismatic and equally cocky attitude, but ultimately have very little rhetorical value

Turgid

Your mom asks why you got a 17% on your math test, and you say “Mother, despite my best efforts, the failures of the American compulsory education system left me woefully unprepared for this test of mathematical knowledge.”

Contemptuous

Feeling or expressing deep hatred or disapproval

Contemptuous

The child rolled his eyes and smugly walked away after being told to do the dishes by his mother.

Facetious

Silly, joking, or intended to amuse, often inappropriately

Facetious

As the cancer patient walked in, the doctor jokingly compared their head to a basketball

Sardonic

Disdainfully or skeptically humorous (in a bad way)

Sardonic

His eyes were twinkling with mirth and his lips were twisted into an evil smile

Mock-Heroic

A literary work and style imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject.

Mock-Heroic

In the poem “The Dunciad '', the author ridiculed a goddess named Dullness and how she took over England.

Cynical

Distrusting the motive of others

Cynical

“Don’t talk to me about voting or politics. I am not interested. All politicians are self serving and corrupt.

Flippant

Not showing a serious or respectful attitude

Flippant

He ignored his parents while they lectured him after her had stayed out of the house past curfew

Fanciful

when something is led by imagination or decoration, rather than reason or experience; impractical, whimsical

Fanciful

Synonym = impractical

Disdainful

full of or expressing contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior; full of expressing scorn or contempt

Disdainful

synonym = scornful

Mock-serious

Pretending to be serious as a joke

Mock-serious

sarcastic

Inflammatory

desirous

Indignant

Antonym = placid

Pedantic

Synonym = intuitive

Inflammatory

the use of language to arouse passion or strong emotion in the audience, especially anger, belligerence, or desire

Indignant

feeling or expressing strong displeasure or annoyance towards something or someone considered unjust, unworthy, or insulting

Pedantic

being too concerned with unimportant details or traditional rules, especially in connection with academic subjects; nit-picky, formal, strict, precise