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The document discusses tone in writing and discusses the following key points: 1) Tone is the author's attitude toward the reader and subject matter. It affects how the reader perceives the written message. 2) When writing, the author considers tone by making choices about diction, syntax, and sentence structure. The tone comes through in elements like dialogue and character actions. 3) There are different points of view (POVs) an author can use like first, second, and third person that impact the narrative voice/tone. The POV should be carefully considered.

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Module 7

The document discusses tone in writing and discusses the following key points: 1) Tone is the author's attitude toward the reader and subject matter. It affects how the reader perceives the written message. 2) When writing, the author considers tone by making choices about diction, syntax, and sentence structure. The tone comes through in elements like dialogue and character actions. 3) There are different points of view (POVs) an author can use like first, second, and third person that impact the narrative voice/tone. The POV should be carefully considered.

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Intonation (or varied tone) is used in

speech to determine what message you


want to convey. The patterns of voice
include the following:
Rising action Example: “Are you ready to
listen?”
Falling action Example: “When are you going
to listen?”
Fall-rise action Example: “Would you like to
listen?”
In literature, tone is the approach of the author
on his or her writing. Tone is not only set in
fictional works. It is also apparent in essays.
Scott Ober, author of Contemporary Business
Communication, defined tone as “the writer’s
toward the reader and the subject of the
message. The overall tone of a written message
affects the reader just as one’s tone voice affects
the listener in everyday exchanges.”
Before you write your piece, starting from the topic or
theme and the character or conflict, you already have
imposed your biases and drawn limits – including your
political views, gender identity, religion, ethnicity,
notions, etc. It also includes who your target audience is
and what medium you are going use.

Tone is as important as other elements in Creative Non


Fiction. “Of course,” Philip Gerard, co-author of Writing
Creating Nonfiction said, “the author has been with us in
every line, in the second way that an author participates
in a nonfiction story: tone.”
In setting the tone of your writing, you consider
your diction (choice of words), syntax
(arrangement of words), and sentence
structure (construction of sentences). The tone
is evident in the speaker, dialogue, flow of the
story, and actions of each character. Although
there is general tone to a general tone to a
literary work, the tone may change based on the
development of the story, the scenes, and the
characters.
The tone of your voice affects the reader’s
perceptions of your work. Your writer’s
voice, in general, is your style of writing
that you develop through time.

The narrative voice is the voice of your


work’s speaker (narrator persona). It is
called authorial voice. That is why it is
important for you to decide on what angel
of vision, whose POV your story will be
told.
Here is a rundown of the POVs and how you can use
the in Creative Non Fiction:
a). FIRST-PERSON POV
Though the literary work is signified by the use of I
or we, you have learned from fiction writing that the
speaker –the authorial voice- is not necessarily the
main character or the author himself or herself.
Writing in the first person means that you have to be
mindful of the language register of the narrator.
Consider, for example, this part from Alice Waler’s
epistolary novel The Color Purple.
b). SECOND-PERSON POV
It is signified by the use of you. Poet Jillian M. Phillips pointed
out that “the use of second person-‘you’-is rare in fiction, but is fairly
common in poetry”. In this case, that “you” is combined with the “I”.
In the fiction writing, you have to make sure to whom the “you”
pertains. Your reader will automatically become the surrogate – as a
part of the narrative. If the perspective of the character is not detailed
enough, you will lead your readers astray. Consider the poem “Full
Metal Jacket” written by Mark Angeles. The “you” in this poem was
seven-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella. She was a victim of a stray
bullet. That was detailed at the end of the poem. But for someone who
had read it for the first time, the person may have difficulty
connecting with the narrative.
c). THIRD-PERSON POV
This POV is signified by the use of the pronouns he, she, it, or they. The
speaker is not one of the characters of the narrative. The character does not
participate in the flow of the story, and is, therefore, not affected by it. As
you have learned, there are three ways of writing the third-person POV.
1. Objective – the speaker gives an unbiased POV, knows or reveals
nothing about the characters’ internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations
and sticks to the external facts of the story.
2. Limited Omniscient – the speaker knows the internal thoughts, opinions,
feelings and motivations of one character only (usually the main character),
which means anything the character does not know about, the narrator
cannot tell.
3. Omniscient – the speaker knows, and at least partially reveals, the
internal thoughts, opinions, feelings, and motivations of all the characters,
describes almost everything about the places and events of the story.

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