AP Lit - Essential tone words

Benevolent

well meaning and kind

Jovial

cheerful and friendly

Jubilant

feeling or expressing great joy or triumph

Reverent

deep respect towards something or someone

Romantic

having to do with love or idealism of something or someone

Whimsical

playful, fanciful in an amusing way

Admonitory

giving a warning or repremand

Belligerent

hostile or aggressive

Callous

insensitive or cruel to others

Choleric

bad tempered or irritable

Condescending

patronizing superiority

Haughty

arrogantly superior 

Apprehensive

anxious or fearful that something might happen

Dejected

sad, depressed, dispirited

foreboding

fearful apprehension

Morose

sullen and ill-tempered

Ominous

threatening, gives an impression that something bad is coming

poignant

sadness and regret

Bantering

good humored teasing

Caustic

sarcasm

Droll

curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement

Facetious

treating something with inappropriate humor

Flippant

not showing a respectful/serious attitiude

Sardonic

mocking or cynical

Fervent

passionate intensity

Candid

truthful and straightforward

Didactic

moral instruction with a motive to teach

histrionic

overly theatrical or melodramatic

nostolgic

found feelings of the past/ feelings of nostalgia

resigned

having accepted something unpleasant that one can not change