Mood and Tone Task Cards

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

To remember what tone is, some good tricks are:

• AA-author's attitude

• parent saying: "don't give me that tone"

• imagining the author's facial expression as he writes

• all of these are true

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is MOOD!

• Mood is angry

• Mood is what happened in the story

• Mood is the atmosphere of the story

• Mood is the way that you feel about the story

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the DIFFERENCE of tone and mood

• tone and mood are the same

• tone is how readers feel and mood is how the authors attitude towards the topic

• tone is the authors attitude towards the topic and mood is how readers feel.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Mood is the feeling of story. True or False

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is tone

• How the Narrator/Author feels about the story

• The way the story makes you feel

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which term means "the writer's attitude"?

• mood

• tone

• feeling

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Mood is....

• the point of view.

• the genre of the text.

• the feeling a text gives to readers.

• The attitude of the writer.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The tone is determined by the...

• descriptions, words, and dialogue.

• length of a written text.

• descriptions in the text.

• words and dialogue.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The tone in the quote is...

• melancholic

• motivational

• pessimistic

• depressing

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B