Identify Mood and Tone

"Often, you can identify MOOD or TONE by looking at________

• the way the text is organized

• the graphics that accompany the text

• the writer's choice of words and details.

_______________can affect the way you feel about a work of literature. ________________is often what brings you back again and again to the writing of a particular author.

• Sentence structure, tone

• Word choice, mood

• Imagery, style

• Mood and tone; style

MOOD in writing is a _________________________

• an emotion of a character

• writer's attitude toward his or her subject

• feeling a writer creates for readers

• none of the above

TONE is ______________________

• a character's attitude toward another person

• a character's mood

• a writer's feeling while writing

• a writer's attitude toward his or her subject

According to your text, if a friend is being "sarcastic" toward you, that might be an example of his or her__________________

• tone

• mood

• style

• anger

According to your text, these words are used to describe MOOD.......

• sarcastic, angry, sincere

• cheerful, peaceful, eerie

The excerpt from "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" demonstrates a____________MOOD.

• silly

• terrifying

• wondrous

• humorous

How would a reader BEST describe the story's MOOD in this line from "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" ? "Mr. John Philip Johnson shut his front door behind him and went down his front steps into the bright morning with a feeling that all was well with the world on this best of days."

• mocking

• serious

• cheerful

• humorous

Is the mood of this passage positive or negative?

• positive

• negative

Read the passage and answer the question: "The house itself was far from the sprawling white mansion I remembered from my childhood. It looked smaller. The roof sagged and the plaster was cracked. The windows to the living room, the foyer and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames. Like so much else in Kabul, my father's house was the picture of fallen splendor." -Hosseini, The Kite Runner Which word best describes the tone?

• Excited

• Regretful

• Terrified

• Sentimental