Collaborative-RL4 Identifying Tone and Mood

A group of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
What is the mood of this passage?

• Joyful
• Sorrowful
• Nervous
• Teasing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

A group of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.
What key words make the mood Sorrowful?

• sad-colored, gray, heavily, studded
• iron spikes, bareheaded, garments
• Nervous
• Teasing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasoned fears. Bars were the standard paraphernalia for witches; the female half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man’s revulsion or ignorance “Bats in the Belfry,” “Batty” “Blind as a Bat.”
What is the tone of the passage?

• Informal
• Informational
• Humerous
• Persuasive

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point of my career as a slave. It rekindled the embers of freedom, and made me remember a sense of my own manhood.- (Frederick Douglass)
What is the tone of the statement above?

• encouraging
• sarcastic
• unemotional
• sorrowful

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point of my career as a slave. It rekindled the embers of freedom, and made me remember a sense of my own manhood.- (Frederick Douglass)
What key words show the tone is encouraging?

• the turning point, rekindled, freedom
• slave, career, battle
• remember, sense, manhood
• this, turning, made

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher
What is the mood in the passage?

• Friendly
• Gloomy
• Fearful
• Happy

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher
What key words show the gloomy mood?

• during, whole, day
• dull, dark, hung, alone, dreary
• view, house of usher, clouds
• singularly, heavens, horseback, passing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

I simply cannot believe that after all the reading we have done this week, we have to read thirty pages tonight. This is an outrage!!!
What is the tone of the sentence?

• angry
• gleeful
• skeptical
• questioning

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

I simply cannot believe that after all the reading we have done this week, we have to read thirty pages tonight. This is an outrage!!!
What key words show an angry tone?

• simply, believe, after
• thirty pages, week
• simply cannot believe, outrage
• we have to read

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4