Tone & Mood Test Review

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.6.3B

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

To remember what tone is, some good tricks are:

• think of the "author's attitude"

• a parent saying: "don't give me that tone"

• imagining the author's facial expression as she writes

• all of these are true! :)

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.

What mood do the details of the poem convey?

• hopelessness

• happiness

• excitement

• nostalgia

Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

Which TWO tones are represented in the following passage?

• dismayed

• grateful

• excited

• animated (full of energy)

What is mood?

• Where and when a story takes place.

• The author's reason for writing a story.

• The author's attitude toward the story.

• How the story makes you feel.

Which word best describes the tone of the passage below?

I never wanted to see that movie, but my annoying little sister kept pestering me. Eventually, her whining wore me down, and I gave in. But that waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

CHOOSE TWO!

• admiring

• bitter / resentful

• sad / lonely

• annoyed

Which words and phrases from the sentence below best shows you the tone?

That waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.

• "waste" and "destroyed"

• "movie" and "of a"

• "that" and "my"

• "really" and "Saturday"

Lana was bursting with excitement. She paced up and down, and every few minutes headed to the window to check for the mail carrier. When he finally showed up, she ran down the path and stretched out her hand for the mail. She took a deep breath and, hands shaking, ripped open the envelope.

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

• humorous

• amused

• anxious

• hyper

Often you feel you’ve done nothing, when you’ve actually done a lot! That’s because what you did do seemed beneath notice—it was so small that it didn’t “count.” But it did—just as each stitch counts toward a finished dress, each brick or nail toward a house you can live in, each mistake toward knowing how to do things right!

What is the tone of this paragraph?

• hesitant

• encouraging

• arrogant

• forceful

The author's attitude toward the subject matter is called ________.

• mood
• tone

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.6