Mood/Tone

Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the question below.
My heart is like a singing bird   Whose nest is a weathered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree  
Whose boughs are bent  with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell   That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;
My heart is gladder than all these  
Because my love is come to me.
QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey? (Look specifically at the three things the speaker compares her heart to.)

• Sorrow
• Happiness
• Excitement
• Nervousness

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

There go the loves that wither [dry up],   The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither [there]   And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild leaves that winds have taken,  
Red strays of ruined springs. ...
And love, grown faint and fretful With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful   Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: What mood do the details in the poem convey?

• Wastefulness and excess
  
• Happiness
  
• Sadness and despair
  
• Mistrust
  

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

• Calm
• Annoyed
• Scary
• Excited

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• Eerie
• Sarcastic
• Passionate
• Humorous

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Tone can best described as

• attitude of the reader
• the overall mood or feeling in a story
• the author's attitude toward his writing
• reader's point of view

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

To remember what tone is, some good tricks are:

• AA-author's attitude
• parent saying: "don't give me that tone"
• imagining the author's facial expression as he writes
• all of these are true

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the "mood" of  a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
• The time and place of the story.
• The summary of events of the story.
• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

"They plan to kill General  Washington." He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me all" (103). 
What is the tone of the dialogue? 

• informal
• happy
• serious
• optomistic

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the tone of the following text?
"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108).
 

• pleased
• angry
• happy
• suspicious

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106). 
What is the mood of the passage?

• romantic
• sorrowful
• joyful
• suspenseful

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4