Tone and 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.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Be careful to read ALL of the answer choices before you answer the following question. To remember what tone is, what are some good tricks?

• AA-author's attitude

• your parent saying: "Don't give me that tone."

• imagining the author's facial expression as he writes

• all of the above

The tone and mood of a text can be very different

• true
• false

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

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

• playful
• objective
• ironic
• mysterious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

which word set contains only mood words

• light-hearted, sincere, mysterious

• mysterious, creepy, honest

• eerie, mysterious, suspenseful

• sincere, heart felt, playful

What is the mood of the following poem?

"A Birthday"

by Christina Rossetti

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.

• Sorrow

• Happiness

• Excitement

• Nervousness

Read the following stanza from a poem. What is the mood of the poem?

"The Garden of Proserpine"

by Algernon Swinburne

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].

• annoyed

• depressing

• confident

• excited

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.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.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Read the following passage and decide which of the following groups of words would create a tone of tension.

His feet had hardly touched the floor when a nerve-shattering scream filled the house and a glistening body flashed toward him through the band of moonlight. Crouching, he flung the blanket out protectingly almost at the same instant the snarling panther was upon him.

• hardly, scream, glistening, moonlight, instant

• nerve-shattering, scream, glistening, flung, snarling

• scream, flashed, protectingly, instant, upon

• touched, nerve-shattering, body, band, panther