Mood Tone

Choose the positive mood woods...

• cheerful

• gloomy

• suspenseful

• lighthearted

“They were standing in a sunlit field, and the air about them was moving with the delicious fragrance that comes only on the rarest of spring days when the sun’s touch is gentle and the apple blossoms are just beginning to unfold.” (67)

• Peaceful

• Suspenseful

• scared

• Exciting

“Meg knelt at her mother’s feet. The warmth and light of the kitchen had relaxed her so that her attic fears were gone. The cocoa steamed fragrantly in the saucepan; geraniums bloomed on the window sills and there was a bouquet of tiny yellow chrysanthemums in the center of the table. The curtains, red, with a blue and green geometrical pattern were drawn and seemed to reflect their cheerfulness throughout the room. The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal; the lights glowed with steady radiance…” (16)

• Harsh

• Comforting

• Excited

• Spooky

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

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

mood is created by...

• setting

• images

• dialogue

• events

The emotional feeling or background that surrounds a scene

• serious

• atmosphere

• predicate of a sentence

• suspenseful

Attitude a writer takes toward the subject or the audience

• subject of a sentence

• sentimental

• tone

• predicate of a sentence

a feeling of excitement and uncertainty

• matter of fact

• humorous

• sympathetic

• suspenseful

full of fun and high spirits

• playful

• suspenseful

• serious

• matter of fact