Tone/Mood Application

What is the tone of this image?

• whimsical

• appreciative

• matter-of-fact

• haughty

'The sun was bright and the sky was clear. Joan jogged down the path with Rex at her side and smiled about last night's victory.' What's the tone?

• optimistic

• melancholy

• pessimistic

• suspenseful

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Comical

• Tense

• Suspenseful

• Jovial

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage?

• Bitter
• Respectful
• Objective
• Humorous

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

Tags

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...

• whimsical

• objective

• subjective

• mysterious

Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the question below.

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.

QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey?

• Mournful

• light-hearted

• whimsical

• comical

Read the following lines from "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Swinburne. Then answer the question below.

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].

QUESTION: Which words and/or images from the poem help develop a ghoulish/macabre tone?

• love, dead, regretful, eyes

• dead dreams, wither, ruined springs, dead years

• old loves, grown faint, weeps, regretful

• red strays, endure, weeps, dead

What is the "mood" of a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.

• The time and place of the story.

• The summary of events of the story.

• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

Does "mood" focus on the reader or the writer?

• Reader

• Writer