Unit 5: Tone & Mood Vocab Words

Tone is

• the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.

• two opposities that that somehow make sense.

• how the reader feels about the text while reading.

• words that appeal to the senses.

Mood is

• the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

• longing for the past.

• how the reader feels about the text while reading.

• words that appeal to all 5 seneses.

What does the tone/mood word empathetic mean?

• longing for the past.

• having odd, fancy, and/or playful triats/ideas.

• satisfied; peacefully pleased.

• feeling another's pain as one's own.

A tone or mood word that refers to tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

• pensive

• pessimistic

• idyllic

• optimistic

A tone or mood word that refers to longing for the past.

• nostalgic

• pessimistic

• whimsical

• content

having odd, fancy, and/or playful triats/ideas

• whimsical

• content

• benevolant

• scholarly

A tone or mood word that means satisfied; peacefully pleased.

• idyllic

• optimistic

• scholarly

• content

kindly, charitable

• scholary

• objective

• benevolant

• idyllic

describes a tone that is academic, learned, and studious

• scholarly

• content

• objective

• speculative

Factual, related to reality or physical objects; not influenced by emotions, unbiased

• scholarly

• objective

• pessimistic

• speculative