Mood Lesson

What is the "mood" of  a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
• The time and place of the story.
• The summary of events of the story.
• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

Does "mood" focus on the audience or the narrator?

• Reader
• Narrator

Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.

• pictures
• height
• words
• funny faces

"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
• sorrowful
• joyful
• suspenseful

Today was Wendell's birthday. He barely slept last night. He jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to the smell of pancakes cooking.
What would Wendell's mood be on his birthday?

• Crazy
• Fearful
• Distant
• Excited

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

• mood
• tone

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

• Setting Description
• Imagery
• Imagination
• Character Speech/Feeling

What is the mood?
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

• relaxed
• terrified
• worried
• perplexed

What is the mood?
True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad?  

• mellow
• funny
• frantic
• chill

What is the mood?
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

• pleasant
• happy
• melancholy
• no-nonsense