Tone and Mood

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What is the "mood" of a story?

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Emotions audience feels from a given passage.

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Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________. Options: pictures, height, words, funny faces

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words

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Describe the tone of the passage: Bitter, Respectful, Objective, Humorous

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Humorous

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What is the mood of the passage describing a group of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, assembled in front of a wooden edifice with a heavily timbered oak door studded with iron spikes?

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Sorrowful

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What key words make the mood Sorrowful in the passage: "A group of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes."

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sad-colored, gray, heavily, studded

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What is the tone of the statement: "This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point of my career as a slave. It rekindled the embers of freedom, and made me remember a sense of my own manhood." - (Frederick Douglass)? Options: encouraging, sarcastic, unemotional, sorrowful

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encouraging

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What key words show the tone is encouraging in the quote: "This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point of my career as a slave. It rekindled the embers of freedom, and made me remember a sense of my own manhood." - (Frederick Douglass)?

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the turning point, rekindled, freedom

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What is the mood in the passage? During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

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Gloomy

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What key words show the gloomy mood? Options: during, whole, day, dull, dark, hung, alone, dreary, view, house of usher, clouds, singularly, heavens, horseback, passing

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dull, dark, hung, alone, dreary

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What is the tone of the sentence: "I simply cannot believe that after all the reading we have done this week, we have to read thirty pages tonight. This is an outrage!!!"
Options: angry, gleeful, skeptical, questioning

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angry