6th Grade Tone / Mood

What is the feeling or emotion the AUTHOR communicates in a story

• Mood
• Tone
• Characterization
• Narrator

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
"She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket."

• Calm
• Annoyed
• Scary
• Excited

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which tone is represented in the following passage? 

"As the hurricane threatened, the wind's blast caused angry fifteen-foot waves to crash over the small houses near the shore."

• Calm
• Annoyed
• Scary
• Excited

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which tone is represented in the following passage? 

"Ugh! Do I really have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again."

• Calm
• Annoyed
• Scary
• Excited

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the feeling that the READER interprets from the story?

• Cite
• Tone
• Mood
• Sequence

What mood is communicated through the details in the following passage?
“The house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood.  It looked smaller.  The roof sagged and the plaster was cracked.  The windows to the living room, the foyer and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken. . . "

• Detached
• Sentimental
• Threatening
• Excited

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

What best describes the tone throughout the following passage?
"We must do something about the trash that floats in the Trinity River. It is too unsafe for the city and for the families who visit the river every year. The trash floats to the surface and makes the water unsafe so that nothing can survive in it. Even the animals that live on and near the river need to be saved from the filth."

• Calm
• Serious
• Amused
• Nervous

Which of the following mood words mean happy?

• Solemn
• Sorrowful
• Indifferent
• Cheerful

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which of the following mood words means sad?

• Serene
• Hopeful
• Sorrowful
• Apathetic

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4