Tone, Mood, and Author's Purpose

What is the tone:

“My son,” he opened,” I already hooked the giant fish I

was dreaming of.” And he told the long adventure he

had that day.

• impatient

• proud

• suspicious

• angry

What is the tone:

“Drive the rats away!” the farmers said.

• angry

• funny

• tender

• confident

What is the tone:

“May the best climber win,” said some.

• annoyed

• confident

• insecure

• cheerful

Identify the mood:

Little Red Riding Hood was enjoying the warm summer

day so much, that she didn't notice a dark shadow

approaching out of the forest behind her...

-from “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault

• envious

• exciting

• gloomy

• scary

Identify the mood:

Suddenly she found herself in the middle of a field

where the Queen of Hearts was playing croquet. Her

guards and gardeners were shaped like cards. One

gardener had planted white roses by mistake and then

painted them red, "Off with their heads!" shrieked the

Queen. "I hate white roses!".

-from “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll

• envious

• joyous

• satisfied

• shocked

Identify the mood:

Out from the large brown egg popped a large,

strange-looking head of a bird that didn't look much like

a duck. This baby's beak was a little too long, his feathers

were a little too scruffy, and his face was a little too ugly!

-from “Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen

• disappointed

• pleased

• serious

• violent

Identify the author’s purpose in

writing:

Tornadoes are harshly spinning column of air

stretching from the thunderstorm clouds to the

ground. They are difficult to be seen unless they form

a condensation funnel consisting of water, droplets,

dust, and debris. They can be so destructive,

destroying all things found in their paths.

• describe

• entertain

• inform

• persuade

Identify the author's purpose:

Sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere is

a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow with

different wavelengths. The color with the shorter

wavelength is scattered more by the air particles

than the other colors with longer wavelengths. Blue

has a shorter wavelength than red. This explains

why it seems that the sky is blue

• describe

• explain

• entertain

• persuade

Identify the author's purpose:

“I like talking to myself. It is one of my greatest

pleasures. I often have long conversations all by

myself, and I am so clever sometimes I don't

understand a single word of what I am saying.”

- The Rocket from “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” by Oscar Wilde

• describe

• entertain

• explain

• persuade

Identify the author's purpose:

“Now is the time to make real the promises of

democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark

and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit

path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our

nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the

solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make

justice a reality for all of God's children.”

-by Martin Luther King

• entertain

• explain

• inform

• persuade