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Mood and Tone

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the BEST word to describe the tone of this painting?

a)

exhilarated

b)

cranky

c)

admiring

d)

ecstatic

2.

What is the best word to describe the TONE of this painting?

a)

optimistic

b)

cheerful

c)

appreciative

d)

despairing

3.

Which word BEST describes the mood of this painting?

a)

serious

b)

insecure

c)

cheerful

d)

enraged

4.

Which word best describes the TONE of this painting?

a)

playful

b)

enraged

c)

energetic

d)

despairing

5.

Which word best describes the MOOD of this painting?

a)

cranky

b)

sympathetic

c)

optimistic

d)

playful

6.

Which word BEST describes the TONE of this movie poster?

a)

ecstatic

b)

exhilarated

c)

cheerful

d)

serious

7.

Which word best describes the MOOD of this movie poster?

a)

exhilarated

b)

insecure

c)

cranky

d)

pessimistic

8.

Which word best describes the TONE of this movie poster?

a)

uncertain

b)

tender

c)

confident

d)

enraged

9.

Which word best describes the MOOD of this movie poster?

a)

playful

b)

appreciative

c)

cheerful

d)

determined

10.

Which word best describes the tone of this movie poster?

a)

energetic

b)

tender

c)

insecure

d)

sympathetic

11.
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.)
a)
Sorrow
b)
Happiness
c)
Excitement
d)
Nervousness
12.
which word set contains only mood words
a)
light-hearted, sincere, mysterious
b)
mysterious, creepy, honest
c)
eerie, mysterious, suspenseful
d)
sincere, heart felt, playful
13.
Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!
a)
Calm
b)
Annoyed
c)
Scary
d)
Excited
14.
To remember what tone is, some good tricks are:
a)
AA-author's attitude
b)
parent saying: "don't give me that tone"
c)
imagining the author's facial expression as he writes
d)
all of these are true
15.

What is MOOD!

a)

Mood is angry

b)

Mood is what happened in the story

c)

Mood is the atmosphere of the story

d)

Mood is the way that you feel about the story

16.

What is the DIFFERENCE of tone and mood

a)

tone and mood are the same

b)

tone is how readers feel and mood is how the authors attitude towards the topic

c)

tone is the authors attitude towards the topic and mood is how readers feel.

17.

Mood is the feeling of story. True or False

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

18.

What is tone

a)

How the Narrator/Author feels about the story

b)

The way the story makes you feel

19.

Tone and Mood are the SAME. TRUE OR FALSE

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

20.

Quiz was fun. TRUE or FALSE

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Nothing was learned