Mood and Voice 6th Grade

Mood and Tone
Mr. Ramos
6th Grade

Mood and Tone

Mood Notes:

• In literature, mood is the emotional quality or atmosphere of a story or poem. 
  
  

• Mood is created by the author’s or poet’s use of specific words and descriptions. 
  
  

• In particular, descriptions of the setting, or the time and place, often establish the mood of the literary work.

Mood and Tone

Mood Notes:

• For example: “The river sparkled in the golden sunshine as the water flowed around the bend.”
  
  

•  In this sentence, the descriptive words and phrases sparkled and golden sunshine create a happy, peaceful mood.

Multiple Choice

What determines the mood of a work of literature?

• Setting

• Author's Words

• How you woke up

Multiple Choice

What do you think the mood is?

As she looked into the woods, the light of the moon silhouetted the bare branches of the trees. She shivered as the cold wind st

• Haunting

• Happy

Open Ended

What words or phrases helped you determine the mood?

Multiple Choice

What do you think the mood is?

The wind whispered through the empty playground, its rusty swings swaying gently back and forth with no one to push them. The sun had already begun to set, casting long shadows over the abandoned field.

• Lonely

• Welcoming

• Quiet

Open Ended

What word or phrases helped you determine the mood?

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Tone Notes:

• In literature, tone is the distinctive use of language that conveys the personality of the writer or speaker, the narrator, or a particular character.
  
  

• Tone provides the sense that a real person is talking to the reader or to other characters.
  
  

• A reader can analyze, or examine, word choice, formal or informal tone, and speech patterns to determine how the author’s use of language contributes to tone

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Tone Notes:

• Example:
  

• "I can’t believe you did that!" shouted Liam, his face turning red. "After everything I’ve done for you, and this is how you treat me? Unbelievable!" He slammed his fist on the table
  
  

• The language used by the author, shows a tone of anger.

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the speaker?

“I will continue this fight until I see every child, every child in school.”

• Mad

• Determined

• Happy

Open Ended

What words or phrase did the speaker say to determine tone?

Bonus, what type of figurative language is this?

Multiple Choice

What is the tone of the speaker?

"we saw them coming to our house, there was no time, not one minute. We did not say good-bye, my mother was running into the kitchen and we ran out the backdoor"

• Safe

• Happy

• Panic

Open Ended

What words or phrase helped you determine the tone?

Mood and Tone

Summary:

• Mood is created by setting and the description of it.
  
  

• Tone is created by the word choice and language of a character or narrator.
  
  

• Mood = setting and description

• Voice = words/language of a character.