Mood and Tone
What is the mood of the following passage:
“She was eager to see what was in the closet her husband had told her not to open. So great, indeed, was her desire to do this, that … she slipped away down a private staircase that led to this forbidden closet, and in such a hurry, that she was two or three times in danger of falling down stairs and breaking her neck.
When she reached the door of the closet, she stopped for a few moments to think of the order her husband had given her… But she was so very curious to know what was inside, that she made up her mind … She then, with a trembling hand, put the key into the lock, and the door straight flew open.”
A. Confident
B. Angry
C. Hesitant
Hesitant
What can be inferred from the following passage:
“I was so tired on Sunday. I had stayed up late the night before typing my essay that was due on Monday. I gave myself a few hours of rest before I did some last minute proofreading. I really needed to do well on this essay since I failed the last exam.”
A. The speaker worked hard on the essay.
B. The speaker is a student.
C. The speaker is failing the class
What is The speaker is a student?
What is the meaning of the italicized word in the passage:
"He loved to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives as they sat spinning by the fire, and listened with interest to their tales of ghosts and goblins—in particular, the legend of the headless horseman. But the pleasure in all this was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homeward. What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path! How often did he dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being close behind him!”
A. Acquired
B. Allowed
C. Claimed
Acquired
An author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
What is the mood of the following passage:
“Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.”
A. Calm
B. Foreboding
C. Excited
Calm
the character who opposes the main character in a work of fiction
What is antagonist?
What can be inferred from the following passage:
“Clair loves to play games with her brother. She also loves to play outside and help her mother cook dinner. Clair does not like doing homework or having to go to bed. Tomorrow, Clair and her mother will go to the park.”
A. Clair is the older sister.
B. Clair always listens to her parents.
C. Clair is a small child.
What is Clair is a small child?
What is the meaning of the italicized word in the passage:
“It was eleven o’clock that night when Mr. Pontellier returned from Klein’s hotel. He was in an excellent humor, in high spirits, and very talkative. His entrance awoke his wife, who was in bed and fast asleep when he came in. He talked to her while he undressed, telling her anecdotes and bits of news and gossip that he had gathered during the day. From his trousers pockets he took a fistful of crumpled bank notes and a good deal of silver coin, which he piled on the bureau indiscriminately with keys, knife, handkerchief, and whatever else happened to be in his pockets.”
A. Jokes
B. Criticisms
C. Short stories
Short Stories
Main idea, lesson, or insight about life.
What is theme?
What is the tone of the following passage:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
A. Earnest
B. Hopeful
C. Satiric
Satiric
literary device used to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story
What is flashback?
What can be inferred from the following passage:
“[Ophelia] Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaid-like a while they bore her up,
Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element.”
A.Ophelia kills herself
B.Ophelia does not mind that she fell into the water
C.Ophelia turns into a mermaid after falling in the water
Ophelia turns into a mermaid after falling in the water
What is the meaning of the italicized word in the passage:
“My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong!”
A. Ignored
B. Overtook
C. Bound
Bound
An author's word choice
What is diction?
What is the tone of the following passage:
“Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. […] The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle […] the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed:
‘A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!’
Which all the family re-echoed.
‘God bless us every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.”
A. Questioning
B. Sentimental
C. Resigned
Sentimental
The conversation among characters in any kind of narrative,story, or play
Dialogue
What can be inferred from the following passage:
“In this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had elapsed since our last meeting. A letter, however, had lately reached me in a distant part of the country – a letter from him – which, in its wildly importunate nature, had admitted of no other than a personal reply.”
A. The narrator feels a strong connection to Usher
B. Usher is very sick
C. The narrator is only stopping by for a short time
The narrator feels a strong connection to Usher
What is the meaning of the italicized word in the passage:
“While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep-for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.”
A. Humor
B. Deception
C. Simplicity
Deception
“Trees cried out in protest during the windy storm” would be an example of what?
Personification
What is the tone of the following passage:
“You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it…
From the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that ground-work of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immoveable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
A. Affectionate
B. Surprised
C. Resolute
Resolute
A man with a mental issue with himself is this type of conflict
What is internal?
What can be inferred from the following passage:
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”
A. Humans have discovered life on other planets
B. Humans are selfish
C. Humans are slowly dying out
Humans are selfish
What is the meaning of the italicized word in the passage:
“As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed. He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of a man… I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretch whom I had created… He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.”
A. Appearance
B. Voice
C. Name
Appearance
Wow, I did NOT expect you to say “no” when I asked you out. In fact, I thought the exact opposite would happen.
Irony