Literary Tone Shifts

Worksheet Description

This worksheet encourages students to explore how the tone evolves in Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” from the beginning to the end of the novel. Tone, the author’s attitude or emotional expression toward the subject, characters, or events, is a crucial element in understanding a story’s development.

Students are prompted to identify and describe the tone at the beginning and the end of the novel. They must support their answers with text evidence, which encourages close reading and critical analysis of the text.

This exercise helps students recognize how the author’s tone can change as the story progresses and how these shifts contribute to the overall narrative impact.