Tone/mood

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.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.3.3A

if an author has no emotion regarding the story he is telling, his tone can be described as

• playful
• objective
• ironic
• mysterious

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CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.3.3A

which word set contains only mood words

• light-hearted, sincere, mysterious
• mysterious, creepy, honest
• eerie, mysterious, suspenseful
• sincere, heart felt, playful

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CCSS.L.3.5C

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!"

• Annoying
• Excited
• Calm
• Scary

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CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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.

• Hesitant
• Encouraging
• Amused

Why do these things always happen to me? Brad wondered. First I forget an important meeting, and nobody reminds me until it's over. Then my boss dumps a big project on my desk and wants it done by yesterday. And to top everything off, I leave my wallet on the bus.

• Comic
• Self-pitying
• Optimistic

When you said you looked a mess
I whispered underneath my breath
But you heard it
Darling, you look perfect tonight

• Romantic
• Calm
• Friendly

What is the mood?

• hopeful
• bossy
• embarrassed
• excited

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CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

What's the mood?

• excited
• silly
• sympathetic
• nervous

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CCSS.L.7.5D

“They were standing in a sunlit field, and the air about them was moving with the delicious fragrance that comes only on the rarest of spring days when the sun’s touch is gentle and the apple blossoms are just beginning to unfold.” (67)

• Peaceful

• Suspenseful

• Natural

• Exciting