We worked on analyzing tone and diction by completing an exercise comparing how Hemingway and O'Brien depict the death of soldiers in war. I worked with Joshua on incorporating portions of text into his answers and in forming a topic sentence for a comparative paragraph. We then studied various passages from the two novels for support. Next, I provided instruction on the literary term "tone" and discussed how to infer tone from diction. Joshua then rewrote his homework response to identify the two authors' tone - blunt , nonchalant- and to identify words and metaphors that exemplify the authors' tone.