AP Lang Tone

Pedantic

excessively concerned with minor details, rues, or learning

Earnest

Showing sincere, intense, and serious conviction

Reverential

Sholing deep respect or awe toward a subject

Didactic

intended to teach, instruct, or moralize

Benevolent

expressing goodwill, kindness, or desire to help others

Combative

ready/eager to fight or argue

Acrimonious

bitter, sharp, or stinging in language + tone

Conciliatory

Intended to pacify or reconcile to build goodwill

Incredulous

skepitical, disbelieving, unwilling to believe something

Laudatory

expressing high praise

Scathing

bitterly severe, harsh, or critical

Extoling

enthusiastically praising, glorying, or honoring something

Condemning

expressing strong disapproval or blame

Equivocal

open to more than one interpretation

Whimsical

playfully quaint or unpredictable in an appealing way

Veracious

speaking or representing the truth

Patronizing

treating someone with a feeling of superiority

Dispassionate

free from emotion/personal bias, calm + objective

Resonant

deep, clear, + continuing to someone with a powerful + lasting effect

Wry

using dry, mocking, or grim humor