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WorksheetsTone and Mood 2
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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1.
Which word indicates a tone of happiness to the following sentence:
Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiance and their wedding plans.
Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiance and their wedding plans.
a)
vicinity
b)
wedding
c)
joyful
2.
Identify the mood of the following sentence:
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.
She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.
a)
fanciful
b)
suspenseful
c)
melancholy
3.
What is the tone of the following sentence?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.
a)
angry
b)
witty
c)
suspicious
4.
What is the mood of the following sentence?
He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.
He furtively glanced behind him, for hear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.
a)
sentimental
b)
suspenseful
c)
frustrating
d)
melancholy
5.
What is the "mood" of a story?
a)
Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
b)
The time and place of the story.
c)
The summary of events of the story.
d)
The lesson the reader learns from the story.
6.
What is the "tone" of a story?
a)
The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
b)
The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
c)
The time and place of the story
d)
The summary of events in the story
7.
What is the mood in the following sentence “They looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing pressure of years. They saw old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's delicate bones among the blowing lakes of grass.”
a)
Gloomy
b)
Joyful
c)
Angry
d)
Confident
8.
The author's attitude or feelings towards the writing and the readers is the ________.
a)
mood
b)
tone
9.
_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.
a)
mood
b)
tone
10.
Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.
a)
space
b)
height
c)
words
d)
funny faces
11.
"They plan to kill General Washington." He closed the book, set it on the floor, and leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me all" (103).
What is the tone of the dialogue?
What is the tone of the dialogue?
a)
informal
b)
happy
c)
serious
d)
optomistic
12.
What is the tone of the following text?
"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108).
"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!" (108).
a)
pleased
b)
angry
c)
happy
d)
suspicious
13.
What is the "tone" of a story?
a)
The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
b)
The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
c)
The time and place of the story
d)
The summary of events in the story
14.
What is the "mood" of a story?
a)
Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
b)
The time and place of the story.
c)
The summary of events of the story.
d)
The lesson the reader learns from the story.
15.
What is the tone of the following sentence?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.
a)
angry
b)
witty
c)
suspicious
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