TONE, MOOD, PURPOSE

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What is the tone: “My son,” he opened,” I already hooked the giant fish I was dreaming of.” And he told the long adventure he had that day. Options: impatient, proud, suspicious, angry

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proud

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What is the tone: “Drive the rats away!” the farmers said. Options: angry, funny, tender, confident

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angry

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What is the tone: “May the best climber win,” said some. Options: annoyed, confident, insecure, cheerful

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confident

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Identify the mood: Little Red Riding Hood was enjoying the warm summer day so much, that she didn't notice a dark shadow approaching out of the forest behind her... -from “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault

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scary

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Identify the mood: Suddenly she found herself in the middle of a field where the Queen of Hearts was playing croquet. Her guards and gardeners were shaped like cards. One gardener had planted white roses by mistake and then painted them red, "Off with their heads!" shrieked the Queen. "I hate white roses!". -from “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis CarrollOptions: envious, joyous, satisfied, shocked

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envious

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Identify the mood: Out from the large brown egg popped a large, strange-looking head of a bird that didn't look much like a duck. This baby's beak was a little too long, his feathers were a little too scruffy, and his face was a little too ugly! -from “Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen

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disappointed

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Identify the author’s purpose in writing: Tornadoes are harshly spinning column of air stretching from the thunderstorm clouds to the ground. They are difficult to be seen unless they form a condensation funnel consisting of water, droplets, dust, and debris. They can be so destructive, destroying all things found in their paths. Options: describe, entertain, inform, persuade

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inform

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Identify the author's purpose: Sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere is a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow with different wavelengths. The color with the shorter wavelength is scattered more by the air particles than the other colors with longer wavelengths. Blue has a shorter wavelength than red. This explains why it seems that the sky is blue. Options: describe, explain, entertain, persuade.

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explain

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Identify the author's purpose: “I like talking to myself. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - The Rocket from “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” by Oscar Wilde

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entertain

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Identify the author's purpose: “Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.” -by Martin Luther King

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persuade