Mood and Tone

What is Mood ?

• How the reader feels; the reactions and emotions that a work of literature produces in a reader through words and descriptions

• How the author feels; an attitude of a writer toward a subject

True or False: Mood is the author's attitude toward the subject

• False

• True

True or False: Tone is the feeling the audience gets when reading a piece of literature

• True

• False

How would you characterize the tone of the following sentence: "I won the game fair and square — and I'll fight anyone who says differently!"

• Bored

• Deceitful

• Delightful

• Angry

Tone is most closely related to:

• Capitalization

• Emotion

• Punctuation

What kind of tone would you most likely find in a newspaper editorial that endorses a political candidate?

• Gloom and despair

• Optimism and enthusiasm

• Fear and loathing

• Sarcasm and anger

What is the tone of the following sentence? "'Here we go again,' he moaned, as he watched the other team score yet another goal."

• Excitement

• Joy

• Frustration

• Fury

What is the relationship between the mood of a piece of writing, and the reader of that piece?

• Mood is the relationship the reader develops with the author of a piece of writing.

• Mood is the amount of sympathy the reader feels for the characters within a piece of writing.

• Mood is the knowledge the reader gains from a piece of writing.

• Mood is the feeling the reader gets from a piece of writing.

What might be the setting of a story with a lighthearted, relaxed mood?

• An isolated cottage deep in the dark woods

• A junior high school math class

• The beach on a sunny day

• A drafty old castle

A story's mood is often implied, instead of stated outright. What does "implied" mean?

• Deceptive

• Hinted at

• Denied

• Declared