Tone and Mood

The tone and mood of a text can be very different

• true
• false

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

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

What is the tone of the following sentence?

"'Here we go again,' he moaned, as he watched the other team score yet another goal."

• joy

• fury

• excitement

• frustration

The best word to describe the mood in this picture is...

• calm

• peaceful

• depressing

• optimistic

The words that determine the tone in this passage are...

"although I had tried hard and had followed the steps of the scientific method, my experiment didn't work. I dragged myself into class and slouched in my seat, not raising my hand

• experiment, science

• method, class

• dragged, slouched

• raising hand

What do you use to identify the tone of a piece of literature?

• I think about how I feel when I look at something or read something.

• I make something up.

• I look at the actions of the characters.

• I look at the author's word choice and think about why they picked those words.

How are tone and mood related?

• They are not related.

• Mood is all the words the author writes and it makes us feel stuff and then the reader sets a tone.

• Tone creates the mood the reader is feeling through the author's word choice.

• Mood creates the tone through how the reader is feeling.

Tone is...

• The way the reader feels after reading a piece of text.

• How the book smells.

• The main conflict in a story.

• The way the author feels about the subject or topic they are writing about.

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

• pictures
• height
• words
• funny faces

The tone in the quote is...

• melancholic

• motivational

• pessimistic

• depressing