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Analysing tone in Critical ReadingHow to analyse tone

In the first section of the National 5 Critical Reading assessment, you should be able to comment on the tone the writer creates and the techniques they've used to create it. Revise how to analyse tone in this guide.

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How to analyse tone

Critical Reading assessment

In the National 5 English Critical Reading assessment, you will be asked to comment on examples of language in an extract from a Scottish text you have previously studied (and elsewhere in the text).

Language is a term used to cover a broad range of literary techniques, including the following:

In the National 5 English exam

You will be asked to:

  • consider and identify tone within a text
  • analyse the author鈥檚 intentions
  • analyse its effect upon the reader

What is tone?

Tone refers to the attitude that a writer conveys towards a subject.

What is tone? How and why would you use it? Bitesize explains with examples from 'My Rival's House' by Liz Lochhead.

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