Mood and Tone

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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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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The tone and mood of a text can be very different

• true
• false

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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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What is the mood?

• afraid
• bossy
• hopeful
• irritated (annoyed)

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What is the mood?

• sad
• approving
• nervous
• silly

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mood is created by...

• setting

• images

• dialogue

• events

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Mood is also called...

• boring

• emotion

• tone

• atmosphere

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Choose the positive mood woods...

• cheerful

• gloomy

• suspenseful

• lighthearted

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“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

• scared

• Exciting

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