Multiple Choice Questions

To analyze tone, which things should the reader study? Check all that apply.
  • a small or subtle difference in meaning
  • connotations, diction, the speaker, the topic
  • believing
  • tone
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.Hamlet: My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. [GHOST beckons.] Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen, [Breaking from them.]By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me: I say, away! Go on, I'll follow thee. [Exeunt GHOST and HAMLET.]
  • greatly disturb
  • perusal
  • unhand me, gentlemen
  • affrighted
What is nuance?
  • tone
  • a small or subtle difference in meaning
  • unhand me, gentlemen
  • connotations, diction, the speaker, the topic
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Ophelia: And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; At last, a little shaking of mine arm, And thrice his head thus waving up and down, He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound That it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being.
  • affrighted
  • perusal
  • attire
  • believing
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.[Laertes:] Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,If with too credent ear you list his songs,Or lose your heart ...
  • perusal
  • believing
  • affrighted
  • greatly disturb
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Hamlet: Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.
  • perusal
  • attire
  • believing
  • head
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Ghost: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand an end ...
  • attire
  • greatly disturb
  • affrighted
  • unhand me, gentlemen
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