Name the Mood
You read a story where the character is stuck in a thunderstorm with no umbrella. You feel nervous and worried. Define the mood.
What is anxious?
Name is a synonym for “mood”.
What is a feeling or atmosphere?
Mood and tone both develop this.
What is the meaning?
Define tone in literature.
What is the attitude of the author towards a subject?
True or False: Both tone and mood are related to emotions.
What is true?
Bouncing into the room, she lit up the room with a joyous glow on her face as she told her family about winning first place in the science fair.
What is excited, happy, etc.?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
An article about pollution uses words like “tragic,” “disaster,” and “urgent.” What’s the tone?
What is serious or concerned?
True or false: Mood and tone are the same thing.
What is false? They are *related* but NOT the same thing.
This is a synonym for “mood”.
What is the emotional atmosphere or vibe created by the author?
If the tone is playful, the mood might be this.
What is lighthearted or cheerful?
She huddled in the corner, holding her blanket and shaking convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her.
a) amused
b) gloomy
c) frightened
What is scared?
As that hurricane threatened, the wind's blast caused angry fifteen-foot waves to crash over the small houses near the shore.
True or false: Setting helps set the mood for the reading.
What is true?
This causes readers to feel the same emotions as the writer or characters.
What is mood?
I have been waiting for you 20 minutes. I am going to be late for my appointment now. Define the tone.
What is annoyed?
Bursting through the door, the flustered mother yelled at her children fighting over a toy.
a) sympathetic
b) energetic
c) furious
What is furious?
The author writes, “Wow, another great idea. Said no one ever.”
What is sarcastic?
What the reader feels when they are reading a given story.
What is the mood?
Tone is used to create this for the reader.
What is meaning?
I want ice cream now! I don't want to wait until after James is done baseball practice. Define the tone.
What is impatient?
I can't believe they canceled the art program without even asking the students! Do they think our creativity doesn't matter? We work hard, and they just erase it like it's nothing. This isn't fair, and we won’t stay silent about it.
What is outraged or angry?
The rain tapped against the empty windowpane as she sat alone in the dark room. Dust covered the photographs on the wall. The silence was heavy, broken only by the creak of the old floorboards. She hadn’t smiled in days, and the world outside felt just as gray as her heart.
What is depressing?
Name one way an author shows tone in their writing.
What is word choice?
Define “connotation”.
What is the feeling or idea a word suggests?
Give an example of a mood word and a tone word that don’t match.
What is Mood: peaceful | Tone: angry?
(basically anything that is opposite)