Tone Author's Point of View

"A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti

*What mood do the details of the poem convey?

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 has come to me.

What mood do the details of the poem convey?

• Sorrow

• Happiness

• Excitement

• Nervousness

"The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon Swinburne.

There go the loves that wither [dry up],

The old loves with wearier wings;

And all dead years draw thither [there]

And disastrous things;

Dead dreams of days forsaken,

Blind buds that snows have shaken,

Wild leaves that winds have taken,

Red strays of ruined springs...

And love, grown faint and fretful

With lips but half regretful

Sighs, and with eyes forgetful

Weeps that no loves endure.

QUESTION: What mood do the details in the poem convey?

• Wastefulness and excess

• Happiness

• Sadness and despair

• Mistrust

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!

• Calm

• Annoyed

• Scary

• Excited

Which tone is represented in the following passage?

She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket.

• Calm

• Annoyed

• Scary

• Excited

Which tone is represented in the following passage?

Ugh! Do I have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again?

• Calm

• Annoyed

• Scary

• Excited

What is the tone of the following passage?

The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her fist down on it--hard. It flew off the nightstand and bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.

• Eerie

• Sarcastic

• Passionate

• Humorous

Tone is most closely related to:

• Emotion

• Capitalization

• Erudition

• Punctuation

What might be the setting of a story with a lighthearted, relaxed mood?

• A drafty old castle

• The beach on a sunny day

• A junior high school math class

• An isolated cottage deep in the dark woods