Determine Mood of Passage

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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What is mood?

• where an when a story takes place

• the author's reason for writing a story

• the author's attitude toward the story

• how the story makes the reader feel

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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Which of the following is not a negative tone:

• angry

• cynical

• harsh

• amused

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Which passage below has the most whimsical tone? (whimsical means light, airy, fun, happy, magical)

• The creature moved its sharp claws over the strange device, and the noise was loud and distracting.

• The lovely fairy danced her long fingers over the harp, and the music carried us gently into a trance.

• The creature played the instrument, and we listened to the music it made.

• The monster produced a terrifying noise, and we tried not to scream and give away our hiding space.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

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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 slowly clipped his fingernails. He was trying to distract himself from the loneliness by focusing on 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 packet.

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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 some tomato soup on the stove top. 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, out the window

• driveway, screen door, slowly stirred

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CCSS.RL.4.4

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Which word best describes the tone of the sentence below?

The stunning poem that opens this lovely collection is rich with imagery and language.

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful

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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 that really destroyed my Saturday.

• admiring

• bitter

• sad

• hopeful

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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

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Which of the following passages has the most objective tone?

• I devoted three hours on Saturday to the masterpiece of a movie.

• The movie that I saw on Saturday was three hours of torture.

• On Saturday, I made a three-hour mistake: I saw the movie.

• I saw the movie on Saturday. It was three hours long.

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4