Mood or Tone?
Mood
Tone
Figurative Language
100

(choose either mood or tone) Amused is an example of...

What is Tone

100
write the title of a book your group has recently read, then state the mood you felt.
What is (answers will vary. up to teachers to say whether your answer is correct or not.)
100

Does tone deal with the author or the reader?

What is Author

100

The cat was as black as the night sky.

simile

200

(choose either mood or tone) Suspenseful is an example of...

What is Mood

200
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.” - Charles Dickens; Pickwick Papers Figure out the mood of this passage.
What is calm, serene, non-violent, peaceful... (answers may vary)
200

True or False: Tone has something to do with how you feel as a reader.

What is false

200

Crash! Boom! Bang!

Onomatopoeia

300

(choose either mood or tone) Happy is an example of...

What is Mood

300
“There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible…” - Emily Bronte; Wuthering Heights Figure out the mood of the passage.
What is depressing, gloomy, eery... ( answer may vary)
300

read the passage then identify the tone. " Just look at The Titanic. The captain said, 'Even God can't sink this ship'. Then, on it's first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, boom, it hit an iceberg and sank..."

What is sarcastic. It gives a humorous attitude inspite of a tragedy.

300

The sun smiled down on the happy couple.

Personification

400

(choose either mood or tone) Ironic is an example of...

What is Tone

400
define mood
What is the feeling a piece of literature causes the reader to have, the overall feeling of a passage, or the dominant impression or emotional atmosphere evoked by the text. (anything close to this will be acceptable.)
400

Tone refers to the author's ________ toward a character, subject or audience. Fill in the blank

What is attitude

400

Heather’s hedgehog hurried to hide in his hideout.

Alliteration

500

List one word that can describe mood, and one word that can describe tone (answers may vary)

What is ... (answers may vary)

500

write a short sentence evoking a mood of being worried

worried: The man chewed at the end of his pencil, unsure the answer to the final question of his SAT, which could cause him to either pass or fail. 


500

two indicators of tone

What is dialogue and description

500

That test was a piece of cake.

Idiom