Author's attitude / tone
An author's attitude or tone is simply his or her feelings about the subject he or she is writing about. Writers express their attitudes through their word choices, sentence structures, and figurative language. Most author's attitude questions go something like this:
1. "The author’s attitude toward ___ can best be described as"
2. "Which best characterizes how the author feels about __?"
3. "The author of the passage would be most likely to characterize/describe __ as"
4. “The tone of lines 5-6 can best be described as”
Read the whole of passage carefully!
TIPS :
- After reading the passage , you can decide what kind of the author's attitude or tone (positive, negative, or might be neutral) from the chosen words that are used by the author in that passage.- And then you can be more specifically find out that if the author's tone is positive the vibes of the passage must be cheerful, happy, enthusiastic, accepting, passionate, joyous, if the author's tone is negative so the vibes of the passage must be disapproving, angry, pessimistic, critical, suspicious, and many more.- Enrich your vocabulary mastery. The key is understanding the vocabulary because if you don't understand with the vocabulary used by the author's , you will be very difficult to find out the attitude or tone from the author.
Example :
Parents usually do not insist that their children learn to walk by a certain age. Parents feel confident that the children will learn to walk within a reasonable period of time, when their bodies are ready for such an undertaking. Teachers should adopt the same attitude when teaching children in school how to read. If teachers did this, children might learn to read much more quickly and experience less anxiety while doing so.
(text is adapted from khan academy)
The author's attitude toward teachers who try to force children to learn how to read once they reach a certain age can best be described as…
A. Sympathetic
B. Accepting
C. Disapproving
D. Neutral
E. Enthusiastic
Discussion :
- The correct answer is C, disapproving. Word "should" on the third paragraph shows that the author suggest the teachers to behave same with the parents during teaching the children about reading, not forcing something to be learnt in certain ages. So, it can be concluded that the author's disagree with the teachers who force the children to read in certain ages
- Option A is not correct because the author doesn't show the sympathy to the teachers who force the children to read in certain ages.
- Option B is not correct because the author doesn't show the any acts of agreement to the teachers who force the children to read in certain ages.
- Option D is not correct because the use of of word "should" by the author shows the clear side of the author's , not the neutral behavior.
- Option E is not correct because the author doesn't show any enthusiastic actions to the teachers who force the children to read in certain ages.
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