Tone/Mood

“Meg knelt at her mother’s feet. The warmth and light of the kitchen had relaxed her so that her attic fears were gone. The cocoa steamed fragrantly in the saucepan; geraniums bloomed on the window sills and there was a bouquet of tiny yellow chrysanthemums in the center of the table. The curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room. The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with steady radiance…” (16)

• Harsh

• Comforting

• Excited

• Spooky

_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.

• mood
• tone

The mood of the this picture is _

• amused
• confused
• joyful
• lonely

City Autumn By Joseph Moncure March
   The air breathes frost. A thin wind beats
Old dust and papers down gray streets
And blows brown leaves with curled-up edges
At frightened sparrows on window ledges.
What is the mood?

• joyful
• annoyed
• gloomy
• puzzled

Dreams, by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is the mood?

• sorrowful
• irritated
• puzzled
• apprehensive

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

• The mood is sorrowful
• the mood is fearful
• the mood is humorous
• the mood is apprehensive

which is a tone word?

• anxious

• witty

• All of the above

• unkind

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

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 she/he writes

• all of these are true

Mood is also called...

• boring

• emotion

• tone

• atmosphere