A Guide To Learn English Language

This is con­tin­u­a­tion to my pre­vi­ous post which is about the adjec­tives that are used by the author to describe his tone.

1. Adjec­tives that are used to describe mod­er­ately neg­a­tive tones:

1. 1. Angry or indig­nant – is annoyed about some­thing that he con­sid­ers unjust or unfair.
   2. Apa­thetic or indif­fer­ent – has adopted an uncar­ing atti­tude towards the issues mentioned.
   3. Biased, col­ored, par­ti­san, prej­u­diced, big­oted, chau­vin­is­tic – is par­tial to a cer­tain view­point with inad­e­quate justification.
   4. Con­de­scend­ing, patron­iz­ing, super­cil­ious or dis­dain­ful – thinks him­self supe­rior to oth­ers and tends to talk down to them.
   5. Cyn­i­cal – believes that peo­ple are moti­vated by the self­ish­ness. Deny­ing the sin­cer­ity of people’s motives and actions or the value of living.
   6. Skep­ti­cal – has his doubts about some­thing behind somebody’s actions, the ful­fill­ment of a promise made, the out­come of a course of action.
   7. Dog­matic, opin­ion­ated or peremp­tory – is arro­gantly and pos­i­tively stat­ing some­thing as the truth with­out car­ing to sup­port his claim with evidence.
   8. Obse­quious – is overly sub­mis­sive to a per­son or an organization.
   9. Crit­i­cal – is find­ing fault with some­body or something.
   10. Hyp­o­crit­i­cal – is pre­tend­ing to be what he is not or being self-righteous when dis­cussing the issue on hand.
   11. Sar­cas­tic or sar­donic – is jerk­ing at or taunt­ing some­one using ironic and bit­ing remarks.
   12. Satir­i­cal – is using ridicule, sar­casm, irony to expose attack or deride vices, fol­lies, stu­pidi­ties and abuses.

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2. Adjec­tives that are used to describe pos­i­tive tone:

1. 1. Opti­mistic, pos­i­tive, san­guine, cheer­ful or buoy­ant – is very hope­ful of the prospects of some­thing or some­body and feels that good things are in store.
   2. Humor­ous – has tried to present the topic in a funny and amus­ing man­ner with an express view to enter­tain the reader.
   3. Intro­spec­tive or con­tem­pla­tive – has attempted to analy­sis his own mind, feel­ings, actions, motives tec.
   4. Lauda­tory, acclam­a­tory, com­pli­men­tary or adul­tery – is prais­ing some­body of some­thing he con­sid­ers praiseworthy.
   5. Com­mis­er­at­ing or sym­pa­thetic – has pity or com­pas­sion for somebody’s suffering.

3. Adjec­tives that are used describe the tones that are nei­ther pos­i­tive nor negative:

1. 1. Neu­tral – does not favor one point of the view over the other.
   2. Apolo­getic – is express­ing regret for some­thing he has said or done.
   3. Emo­tional – was moved at the time of writing.

4. Adjec­tives that can be used to describe the nature or type of a passage:

1. 1. Spec­u­la­tive – it sur­mises or pon­ders over var­i­ous aspects of a given sub­ject or var­i­ous out­comes of a course of action.
   2. Roman­tic – the views expresses are fan­ci­ful and impractical.
   3. Human­is­tic – the author evinces keen inter­est in human affairs, nature, wel­fare, val­ues etc.
   4. Tech­ni­cal – it exten­sively uses the ter­mi­nol­ogy that is spe­cific to a cer­tain field.
   5. Didac­tic – its author has attempted to instruct his read­ers through the passage.
   6. Nar­ra­tive – it’s essen­tially details of a story or incident.
   7. Descrip­tive – it attempts to describe a per­son, place, thing or con­cept in detail.
   8. Evo­cate – it encour­ages the reader to con­struct men­tal pic­ture of a place or an event.