Tone and Mood

What is the TONE in this poem below?

Open A Book,

By Jane Baskwill

Open a book

And you will find

People and places of every kind;

Open a book

And you can be

Anything that you want to be;

Open a book

And you can share

Wondrous worlds you find in there;

Open a book

And I will too

You read to me

And I’ll read to you.

• Enthusiastic

• Authoritarian

• Humorous

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Tone is to author as Mood is to

• plot

• reader

• theme

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Which adjectives best describes the tone of the following quote:

"I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. O God! What COULD I do? I foamed -- I raved -- I swore!"

• Exciting, inspiring

• Upbeat, joyful

• Depressing, melancholy

• Intense, anxious

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Which adjectives best describe the tone of the following quote:

"There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do[....] The reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all."

• Judgemental, angry

• Self-concious, worried

• Ominous, creepy

• Excited, anticipatory

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"I had heard of Miss Havisham up town — everybody for miles round had heard of Miss Havisham up town — as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house barricaded against robbers, and who led a life of seclusion."

Which words contribute to a bleak, paranoid mood in the quote? Check all that apply.

• immensely, large

• grim, seclusion

• barricaded, seclusion

• miles, heard

• dismal, robbers

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"During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other..."

Which words contribute to a jubilant, celebratory mood in the quote? Check all that apply.

• Glittered, hummed

• During, house

• Bright, warm, excited

• Listening, felt

• With, even

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caring, likable, or in favor of

• serious
• playful
• sympathetic
• suspenseful

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A word that takes the place of a noun

• subject of a sentence
• pronoun
• predicate of a sentence

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A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the reader

• humorous
• matter of fact
• sympathetic
• mood

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Unemotional; adhering to the simple facts

• matter of fact 
• playful
• subject of a sentence
• humorous

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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