Tone Vs. Mood

_{What is TONE?}

• A person, place or thing
• Action words
• The author's attitude towards something
• The setting of a story

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What is MOOD?

• How a reader feels when reading a story.

• An action word

• A person, place or thing

• The same thing as tone.

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What tone does this suggest:
Even though the Patriots lost last week, I think they still have a shot at winning the Superbowl.

• Angry
• Hopeful
• Hysterical
• Friendly

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What kind of mood could you possibly get from a story that has a setting in an amusement park? (Look at picture.)

• Scary

• Gloomy

• Light-Hearted

• Depressed

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Would you consider the word WORTHLESS to be a positive or a negative tone?

• Negative
• Positive

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Jumping in the bounce house, the child smiled with endless amounts of joy!  Positive or Negative tone?

• Negative
• Positive

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Tone and Mood are the same exact thing.

• Agree
• Disagree

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The author's attitude or feelings towards the writing and the readers is the ________.

• mood
• tone

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

• mood
• tone

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

• pictures
• height
• words
• funny faces

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