MOOD/TONE & FORESHADOWING

1. What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader

• The time and place of the story

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

• The summary of events in the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

4. "They plan to kill General Washington." He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me all" (103).

What is the tone of the dialogue?

• informal

• serious

• happy

• optimistic

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

5. What is the tone of the following text?

"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108).

• pleased

• happy

• angry

• suspicious

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

6. "Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106).

What is the mood of the passage?

• romantic

• joyful

• sorrowful

• suspenseful

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

• mood

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

11. Which of the following does NOT create mood in a story?

• Setting Description

• Imagery

• Imagination

• Character Speech/Feeling

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

15. The tone and mood of a text can be very different

• False

• True

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

 “Remember, Cinderella,” warned her fairy godmother, “you must leave the ball at midnight. If you stay later, everything will turn back as it was. Your coach will become a pumpkin again. Your gown will become rags. Promise me you will remember.”
“Of course, I’ll remember,” said Cinderella, but as her coach carried her toward the ball, the warning was replaced in her mind with images of dancing and music.

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Foreshadowing can create all of the following EXCEPT

• anticipation

• suspense

• tension

• humor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the foreshadow in this passage?
It was only 5:00AM, so everyone else in the house was still asleep. As they crept through the kitchen to the back door, Mary sniffed the air. It had the faint scent of coffee and something sweet. She shrugged it off and followed Justin out the door, down the back steps,and out onto the boat dock. The fog had settled over the lake, making it impossible to see anything.

• A)That Mary and Justin were going to go back to bed.  
• B)That they might get into an accident or get lost  on the lake because the fog made it impossible to see anything.
• C)They were about to eat breakfast.
• D)That Mary and Justin were going to go for a nice boat ride across the lake. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5