Tone and Mood

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What is tone in writing?

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The author's attitude toward the subject.

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Mood

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Overall feelings or emotions that are created in the reader.

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Which word indicates a tone of happiness in the sentence: Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiance and their wedding plans? Options: vicinity, wedding, joyful

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joyful

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Identify the mood of the following sentence:
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

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suspenseful

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What is the tone of the following sentence?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.

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angry

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What is the mood of the following sentence?
He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.

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suspenseful

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What is the BEST word to describe the tone of this painting? Options:

exhilarated

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cranky

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admiring

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ecstatic

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admiring

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What is the best word to describe the TONE of this painting? Options: optimistic, cheerful, appreciative, despairing

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despairing

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What is the mood of the painting? Options: serious, insecure, cheerful, enraged

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cheerful

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What is the tone of the painting?

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playful