TONE WORDS
joyous, humorous, playful, light, hopeful, brisk, lyrical, admiring, celebratory, laudatory, sxpectant, wistful, sad, mournful, dreary, tragic, elegiac, solemn, somber, poignant, earnest, blasé, disillusioned, straightforward, curt, hostile, sarcastic, cynical, ambivalent, scathing, bitterly ironic, gently ironic.

PERSONA AND TONE--some examples
angry, frightened, astonished, admiring, sincere, sarcastic, humorous, deceptive