Tone and Mood

Multiple Choice

What is tone?

• How the reader is supposed to feel when reading the work.

• The attitude with which the speaker or narrator treats his or her subject.

• The attitude the reader has towards the passage.

• The way you speak.

Multiple Choice

What is mood?

• How the reader is supposed to feel when reading the work.

• How the narrator or speaker feels about their subject.

Open Ended

Write one word that describes tone.

Multiple Choice

Which passage is dark and dreary?

• 1

  Life's city ways are dark,Men mutter by, the wellsOf the great waters moan.O death, O sea, O tide,The waters moan like bells.No light, no mark,The soul goes out aloneOn seas unknown.

• 2

  The skies are sown with stars tonight,

  The sea is sown with light,The hollows of the heaving floorGleam deep with light once more,The racing ebb-tide flashes pastAnd seeks the vacant vast,A wind steals from a world asleepAnd walks the restless deep.

Open Ended

What words from the poem show that the mood of the poem is dark and dreary?

"Life's city ways are dark,Men mutter by, the wellsOf the great waters moan.O death, O sea, O tide,The waters moan like bells. No light, no mark,The soul goes out alone On seas unknown."

Open Ended

What words from the poem show that the tone is bright and happy?

"The skies are sown with stars tonight,

The sea is sown with light,The hollows of the heaving floorGleam deep with light once more,The racing ebb-tide flashes pastAnd seeks the vacant vast,A wind steals from a world asleepAnd walks the restless deep."

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of passage 1?

"Piping down the valleys wild,  Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,  And he laughing said to me:‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’  So I piped with merry cheer.‘Piper, pipe that song again.’  So I piped: he wept to hear."

• This speaker's tone is angry or upset.

• This speaker's tone is sad or unhappy.

• This speaker's tone is pleasant or happy.

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of passage 2?

" Dearest, forgive that with my clumsy touch   I broke and bruised your rose.   I hardly could suppose  It were a thing so fragile that my clutch  Could kill it, thus."

• This speaker's tone is angry and upset.

• This speaker's tone is apologetic or regretful.

• This speaker's tone is mournful.

• This speaker's tone is anxious.

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of passage 3?

"And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,A highwayman comes riding--                   Riding-- riding--A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door."

• This speaker's tone is concerned.

• This speaker's tone is melancholy.

• This speaker's tone is jealous.

• This speaker's tone is spooky or frightening.

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of passage 4?

   "One asked of regret,     And I made reply:   To have held the bird,     And let it fly;   To have seen the star     For a moment nigh,   And lost it     Through a slothful eye;   To have plucked the flower     And cast it by;   To have one only hope--     To die."

• This speaker's tone is regretful or depressed.

• This speaker's tone is happy.

• This speaker's tone is wise.

• This speaker's tone is timid.

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of passage 5?

"When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;When the air does laugh with our merry wit,And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;When the meadows laugh with lively green,And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;When Mary and Susan and EmilyWith their sweet round mouths sing ‘Ha ha he!’"

• This speaker's tone is depressed.

• This speaker's tone is joyful or cheerful.

• This speaker's tone is apologetic or regretful.

• This speaker's tone is wise.