Mood in Poetry

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

• space

• height

• words

• funny faces

The air breathes frost. A thin wind beats Old dust and papers down gray streets And blows brown leaves with curled-up edges At frightened sparrows on window ledges. What is the mood?

• joyful

• annoyed

• gloomy

• puzzled

I have seen machines eating houses

And stairways walk all by themselves

And elevator doors opening and closing And people disappear.

What is the mood?

• fearful and confused

• jealous and annoyed

• heartbroken and bitter

• irritated and embarassed

Don’t show me frogs and snakes

And listen for my scream,

If I'm afraid at all

It’s only in my dreams.

What is the mood?

• confident

• frightened

• lonely

• melancholy

The Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

What is the mood?

• joyful

• heartbroken

• embarassed

• thrilled

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
What is the mood?

• sorrowful

• irritated

• puzzled

• apprehensive

I Dream a World by Langston Hughes
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
What is the mood?

• hopeful

• fearful

• agitated

• puzzled

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

• This stanza has a fearful mood

• This stanza has a baffled mood

• This stanza has a joyful mood

• This stanza has an irritated mood

The City is So Big
by Richard Garcia
I have seen machines eating houses
And stairways walk all by themselves
And elevator doors opening and closing And people disappear. 
What is the mood?

• fearful and confused

• jealous and annoyed

• heartbroken and bitter

• irritated and embarassed

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

• space

• height

• words

• funny faces