01.10 | Tone VS Mood Review

Multiple Choice

The tone of a passage, poem, or song is...

• how you feel after you read or listen to the piece

• the author's attitude toward their work

Multiple Choice

The mood of a passage, book, or song is...

• the author's attitude

• how you feel after reading or listening 

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

City Autumn By Joseph Moncure March
   The air breathes frost. A thin wind beats
Old dust and papers down gray streets
And blows brown leaves with curled-up edges
At frightened sparrows on window ledges.
What is the mood?

• joyful

• annoyed

• gloomy

• puzzled

Multiple Choice

Dreams, by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is the mood?

• sorrowful

• irritated

• puzzled

• apprehensive

Multiple Choice

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Humorous

• Persuasive

• Anxious

• Cheerful

Multiple Choice

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Bitter

• Respectful

• Objective

• Humorous

Multiple Choice

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Enthusiastic

• Serious

• Mocking

• Sorrowful

Multiple Choice

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Ironic

• Informational

• Joyful

• Dramatic