Remediation Recap Pt. 2

Remediation Recap Pt. 2

Mood and Tone

Let's Rewind For A Second...

Last week, most of you stated that you felt ready for your SOL retake after we went over Setting, Conflict, Mood, and Tone. Today, we are are going to recap on Mood and Tone to make sure that you all still feel confident and ready.

Now, let's test it out.

Just To Jog Your Memory...

• Mood: the particular feeling or atmosphere something has or creates. (How the author makes you feel)

• Tone: the writer or speaker's attitude toward the subject.

• Inference: a conclusion reached from evidence and observation.

• Objective: based on facts and not influenced by feelings.

Just To Jog Your Memory...

There are a lot of different words to describe positive tones. A writer can have a celebratory attitude, or she can have a hopeful, excited or reflective tone. Admiring, lighthearted and sympathetic are positive tones, too. On the other hand, a negative tone could be frantic, selfish, bitter or skeptical. Even if the tone isn't positive or negative, there is still a tone. Every piece of writing has one. Sometimes, the tone can be neutral. You might describe a neutral tone as impartial or objective.

Multiple Choice

What is tone?

• where and when a story takes place

• the author's reason for writing a story

• the author's attitude toward the story

• how the story makes you feel

Multiple Choice

What is mood?

• where and when a story takes place

• the author's reason for writing a story

• the author's attitude toward the story

• how the story makes you feel

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a kind of negative tone?

• angry

• cynical

• harsh

• excited

Multiple Choice

Which passage below has the most whimsical, or playful/amusing, tone?

• The creature moved its sharp claws over the strange device, and the noise was loud and distracting.

• The lovely fairy danced her long fingers over the harp, and the music carried us gently into a trance.

• The creature played the instrument, and we listened to the music it made.

• The monster produced a terrifying noise, and we tried hard not to scream and give away our hiding place.

Multiple Choice

Which passage below has the most critical, or disapproving, tone?

• On the train, the man slowly clipped his fingernails. He focused on the task, beginning with his pinky finger and finishing with his thumb.

• On the train, the tired, old man began clipping his fingernails. He was trying to distract himself from his loneliness by focusing on this one small task, moving from pinky to thumb.

• The man—right in the middle of the crowded train—began to clip his long, yellow fingernails. He did it slowly, as if he didn't even care that a dozen other people could see and hear him.

• The man on the train clipped his fingernails. It took him 2 minutes and 8 seconds. He started on his pinky and finished with his thumb. When he was finished, he put the clippers back into his jacket pocket.

Multiple Choice

Which words and phrases best show the sentimental tone in the passage below?

I got out of the old car and took a few halting steps up the driveway. A cloud of warmth drifted out of the window and embraced me like a comforting hug. I knew that smell: fresh bread that Papa had just taken from the oven. I heard the familiar pitch of his whistle as he slowly stirred tomato soup on the stovetop. I ran to open the screen door because, now, I knew where I was. I was home.

• "warmth," "comforting hug" and "home"

• "car," "tomato soup" and "door"

• "old," "halting" and "out the window"

• "driveway," "screen door" and "slowly stirred"

Multiple Choice

Which word best describes the tone of the sentence below?

The stunning poem that opens this lovely collection is rich with imagery and language.

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful

Multiple Choice

Which word best describes the tone of the passage below?

I never wanted to see that movie, but my annoying little sister kept pestering me. Eventually, her whining wore me down, and I gave in. But that waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful

Multiple Choice

Which words and phrases from the sentence below best shows you the tone?

That waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

• "waste" and "destroyed"

• "movie" and "of a"

• "that" and "my"

• "really" and "Saturday"

Multiple Choice

Which of the following passages has the most objective tone?

• I devoted three hours on Saturday to the masterpiece of a movie.

• The movie that I saw on Saturday was three hours of torture.

• On Saturday, I made a three-hour mistake: I saw the movie.

• I saw the movie on Saturday. It was three-hours long.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following passages has the most objective tone?

• Do you know about the brave dogs in Nome, Alaska, who saved the town in 1925? B CD

• The people of Nome, Alaska were in big trouble in 1925. It was up to the dogs to save them.

• The hero dogs in Nome, Alaska, did what no pilot could do: they brought medicine to the town.

• In 1925, people were sick and planes couldn't land in Nome, Alaska. Teams of dogs delivered the medicine.

Multiple Choice

Read the following passage.

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• biting and sarcastic

• enthusiastic and energetic

• formal and polite

• casual and informal

Poll

After today's recap, how do you feel about tone and mood?

• My mood: Confidence Out Of This World!!

• My Mood: Chillin'

• My Mood: Lost In The Sauce