Tone and Mood

What is the tone of the following sentence?

The front door burst open as the toddler gleefully jumped into his awaiting father's arms.

• serious

• suspicious

• matter-of-fact

• joyful

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

Jon punched in the numbers on his cell phone and listened to the call go to voicemail. Where could his dad be? He was supposed to be picked up an hour ago, and the rain was getting heavy.

• ecstatic

• horror

• nervous

• sarcastlc

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

Grandma picked up the framed photo on the table. Lovingly, she traced the face of the young man in the picture that was taken long ago. A tear slid down her cheek.

• annoyed

• nostalgic

• excited

• flippant

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

Jim and Mark tightly squeezed and clutched the bars across their lap as the roller coaster jerked up-up - UP the straight incline of the first hill. As they went over the top, they raised their arms and screamed!

• exhilarated

• friendly

• relaxed

• diabolical

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

Would there be one left? George stretched his neck as far as he could, and he tried to squeeze between the mob of children that were pressed around the snack table. One cookie? Would somebody just leave him one cookie?

• hopeful

• proud

• admiring

• delightful

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

What would I do if I ran into a bear while hiking into the woods? Why, I would die, of course! The bear wouldn't even need to swipe at me. I wouldn't even give him the trouble.

• approving

• confused

• humorous

• selfish

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

Marco dashed into the cafeteria trying to beat the group at his lunch table, but it didn't work. There they were, and they were blocking his way to his assigned seat. "What you got there, Marco?" As hard as he tried to hold onto his lunch, he felt the older boys rip it out of his hands. It went flying across the cafeteria.

• approving

• formal

• fearful

• impatient

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

"I'm sorry," she muttered. Alice couldn't even bear to look at her aunt's face. She knew that she had hurt her aunt's feelings. Why had she blurted out that she hated living there?

• conciliatory

• friendly

• evasive

• bossy

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the tone?

Hermoine Granger: That's right! Now if you two don't mind, I'm going to bed before either of you two comes up with another idea to get us killed, or worse, expelled!

Ron Weasley: She needs to sort out her priorities.

• encouraging

• serious

• questioning

• amusing

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the tone?

Piglet: “How do you spell ‘love’?”

Pooh: “You don’t spell it…you feel it.” —Winnie-the-Pooh

• demanding

• stressful

• casual

• tender

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3