Tone and Mood

What is the difference between Tone and Mood?

• There isn't one

• They are too similar to notice a difference.

• Mood is how the poem makes you (the reader) feel, tone is how the author feels or wants you to feel.

• Mood is how the author feels or want you to feel, tone is how the poem makes you (the reader) feel.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

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Which words and phrases best show the sentimental tone in the passage below?

I got out of the old car and took a few halting steps up the driveway. A cloud of warmth drifted out of the window and embraced me like a comforting hug. I knew that smell: fresh bread that Papa had just taken from the oven. I heard the familiar pitch of his whistle as he slowly stirred tomato soup on the stovetop. I ran to open the screen door because, now, I knew where I was. I was home.

• "warmth," "comforting hug" and "home"

• "car," "tomato soup" and "door"

• "old," "halting" and "out the window"

• "driveway," "screen door" and "slowly stirred"

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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?

• Humorous
• Persuasive
• Anxious
• Cheerful

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the following is not a kind of negative tone?

• angry

• cynical

• harsh

• excited

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

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CCSS.L.6.3B

What is tone?

• 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

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CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Which passage below has the most critical tone?

• On the train, the man slowly clipped his fingernails. He focused on the task, beginning with his pinky finger and finishing with his thumb.

• On the train, the tired, old man began clipping his fingernails. He was trying to distract himself from his loneliness by focusing on this one small task, moving from pinky to thumb.

• The man—right in the middle of the crowded train—began to clip his long, yellow fingernails. He did it slowly, as if he didn't even care that a dozen other people could see and hear him.

• The man on the train clipped his fingernails. It took him 2 minutes and 8 seconds. He started on his pinky and finished with his thumb. When he was finished, he put the clippers back into his jacket pocket.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A truth, lesson or message about life in a poem or other literary text.

• poet

• poem

• theme

• mood

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

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CCSS.RL.7.2

What mood would you associate it with this picture?

• Joy

• Sadness

• Anger

• Mr. Kalnoske when kids don't think Taylor Swift is the best artist ever

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CCSS.RL.4.4

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CCSS.RL.6.4

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CCSS.RL.8.4

What mood would you associate with this picture?

• Joy

• Anger

• Fear

• Sadness

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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"

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4