Question

7. The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into fighting itself, blade slapping blade, at the silly dog with golfball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the lawn. Tone:__________________ Context Clues:_______________________ Mood:________________________

Answer 1

Tone: Informal, lack of seriousness, playful in an irritating and annoying manner. Teasing

Context clues: Laughing wind: Teasing trees to dance with anger (sway violently); cajoling the grass by slapping blade against blades (throwing one grass leaves against each other); leaving the silly dog bounded across the lawn (helpless dog just glued to the lawn).

Mood: Setting - country-side, open natural space; diction - crazy and pestering/teasing; theme - the (laughing) wind.

Step-by-step explanation:

Tone: defines the attitude of the author towards the character of his story.

Context clue: words used to further explain the use of an unknown word use or expression. This could be a synonym, antonym, a definition or specific examples.

Mood: Can be divided into i. the atmosphere (Setting) created by the author, he evokes in the readers the desired emotions by the use of words (ii tone, iii diction and iv theme)