Mood in Poetry

Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the question below.

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is a weathered shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;

My heart is gladder than all these

Because my love is come to me.

QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey? (Look specifically at the three things the speaker compares her heart to.)

• Sorrow

• Happiness

• Excitement

• Nervousness

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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

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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

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The definition of mood is 

• the overall feelings or emotions in the writer.

• revising your writing so that it is free of errors.

• overall feelings or emotions that are created in the reader. 

• working with a partner to check your writing. 

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the feeling the author is trying to convey

• rhyme

• theme

• meter

• mood

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the overall FEELING of a poem is the:

• Mood

• Tone

• Setting

• Speaker

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The ​ (a)   is the feelings the reader gets from the poem.

• mood

• verse

• voice

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What is Mood ?

• the feeling the reader gets from the poem

• how you feel in the morning

• the attitude expressed by the writer in the poem

• feelings

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Drag & drop the correct options to complete the definition. Mood: the​ (a)   ​ ​ and ​ (b)   that a piece of writing creates within the reader.

• feelings

• atmosphere

• tone

• theme

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How the reader feels while reading the piece of writing 

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Tone

• Mood

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