Tone and Mood

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

• Calm
• Annoyed
• Scary
• Excited

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the tone of the following passage?
The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• Eerie
• Sarcastic
• Passionate
• Humorous

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

Tone can best described as

• attitude of the reader
• the overall mood or feeling in a story
• the words an author chooses to use
• reader's point of view

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying emotion through ________.

• pictures
• height
• words
• funny faces

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

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.

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• mood
• tone

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CCSS.L.7.5D

Identify the mood of the following sentence:

She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.

• humorous

• suspenseful

• melancholy (sad)

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

To look at closely and carefully.

• Text Beauty

• Text Meaning

• Text Tone

• Analyze

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.5.9A

How does the illustration add to your understanding of the character (Woody)?

• The character feels worried or concerned, while the other characters are more hopeful.

• The character feels excited, while the other characters are more scared.

• All characters in this scene of the story seem angry at each other.

• The character feels peaceful and relaxed, while the other characters are more worried.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

What is the most likely tone of the text based on the cover illustration?

• Joyful

• Serious

• Sad

• Threatening

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CCSS.RL.5.7