Tone Mood and Other Stuff

What is the TONE of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader.

• The time and place of a story

• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject

• The summary of a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which TONE is represented in the following passage? "Auggie," said Via, "come quick. Mom needs to talk to you."

• anger

• happy

• urgency

• helpful

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Authors set the TONE by:

• using strong adjectives

• involving the reader's senses

• the choice of setting, images, and words

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which parts of speech do we use to describe tone or mood?

• prepositions

• adjectives

• verbs

• nouns

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the MOOD of a story

• Emotions audience/reader feels from a text

• The summary of events

• The time and place of a story

• The lesson the reader learns from the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In Scary Mary, what is the mood of the video?

• happy

• sarcastic

• sad

• eerie

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the mood of the following passage? "You know what an eraser is, right?" asked Jack Will.

• sarcastic

• curious

• funny

• angry

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What word would you use to describe the tone of this passage? "These big dudes, I barely even knew before, would knuckle-punch me in the hallways now."

• humorous

• persuasive

• belonging

• argumentative

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a metaphor

• Comparison using like or as

• Figure of speech in which the word imitates its meaning

• Comparison without using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess

• A hurricane! AHHHH!

• His room looked as if a hurricane came through

• The hurricane screamed through the town.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5