Identify the Mood

Tone and Mood Review

April 14th, 2021.

Multiple Choice

What is tone?

• the feeling a text has on an audience

• the author's attitude towards a subject matter.

Multiple Choice

Define mood.

• the feeling a text produces on the audience

• the author's attitude towards a subject matter

What is the mood? Answer on the next slide.

Multiple Select

What is the mood?

• cherry

• dreary

• excited

• frightening

Identify the mood. Answer on the next slide.

Poll

Identify the mood.

• fearful

• excited

• angry

What is the mood?

Open Ended

What is the mood?

Identify the mood.

Brett sweated in his chair. The clock in the classroom ticked loudly. Brett looked at the test question again. He had no clue what the answer was. His teacher paced around the room. Brett felt like the teacher was circling him, specifically him, not the rest of the class. "Remember, this test determines your future," the teacher said. Brett read the choices again but they all blurred into a meaningless word soup. He could not concentrate. The clock kept ticking, and the second hand sounded like a butcher's knife slamming down on a cutting board. "Time is running out," said the teacher. Brett's heart pounded.

Open Ended

Identify the mood.

Multiple Choice

Identify the tone.

What’s the matter with those idiots in the city council? First they pass new parking regulations saying we can’t park our cars in front of our own houses without a special permit. Now they’ve gone and slapped another tax on gas purchase—just to widen a road that’s already wide enough. Anyway, nobody enjoys the traffic delays resulting from road construction. The sooner we vote those incompetents out, the better off we’ll all be.

• surprised

• disappointed

• upset

Open Ended

Identify the tone.

Often you feel you’ve done nothing when you’ve actually done a lot. That’s because what you did do seemed beneath notice—it was so small that it didn’t “count.” But it did—just as each stitch counts toward a finished dress, each brick or nail toward a house you can live in, each mistake toward knowing how to do things right.

Multiple Choice

Identify the tone. The parking garage was dark, but she could hear the footsteps behind her. She looked back several times, but couldn’t see anyone. However, something just didn’t seem right.

• concerned

• sarcastic

• frank

Well Done!!!