ROMAN C.
VILLALON MEMORIAL
COLLEGES FOUNDATION, INC.
KIBAWE, BUKIDNON
What do you
remember
about sensory
images?
TASKS:
1.Identify tone and mood from a given selection
2.Appreciate the importance of tone and mood
Tone & Mood
By: Jules Martinez
John Erick Lombrino
Adam Amoro
1. What have you observed so far from the
pictures?
2. What did you feel about the pictures?
3. What was the intention of the artists when
they created their artworks?
4. Why did you choose those words to describe
how you felt about the artworks?
5. How are the tone and mood functioning?
MOOD
It is the feeling the reader gets when reading a passage. Mood is the atmosphere the author creates
using descriptive language.
To determine the mood, think about the setting, actions of the characters, and language.
MOOD
Example:
1. She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could
sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting. (: suspenseful mood)
2. 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 (setting: depressing mood)
3. The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened, and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.
(Setting: serene and non-violent mood)
MOOD
MOOD
It helps in creating an atmosphere in a literary work by means of setting, theme, diction, and tone.
It evokes various emotional responses in readers, and thus ensures their emotional attachment to the
literary piece they read.
Once the readers are emotionally stirred, they fully comprehend the message that the writer tries to
convey to them.
TONE
It is how the author feels about what he is talking about. A tone can be serious, sarcastic, wicked,
proud, sympathetic, light-hearted, or hostile.
TONE
Examples:
1. "I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!"
(angry)
2. “Can someone tell me what is going on here!? Who locked us in a room?” (aggressive )
3. “They plan to kill General Washington." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "Tell me
everything at once." (serious)
TONE
TONE
Function of Tone
Tone, in a piece of literature, decides how the readers read a literary piece, and how they should feel
while they are reading it.
It stimulates the readers to read a piece of literature as a serious, comical, spectacular, or distressing
manner.
It lends shape and life to a piece of literature because it creates a mood.
It bestows voice to characters, and throws light on the personalities and dispositions of characters
that readers understand better.
What do I feel?
1. Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and
their wedding plans.
Overwhelmed
Tone: _____________________________________________________________
Happy
Mood: _____________________________________________________________
Joyous
Clues: _____________________________________________________________
What do I feel?
2. She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered (old & torn) blanket and shaking convulsively, as she
feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that awaited her
Thrilled
Tone: _____________________________________________________________
Afraid
Mood: _____________________________________________________________
Clutching
Clues: _____________________________________________________________
What do I feel?
3. Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave
her child an F.
Intense
Tone: _____________________________________________________________
Angry
Mood: _____________________________________________________________
Bursting through the door
Clues: _____________________________________________________________
What do I feel?
4. Drawing the attention of his classmates as well as his teacher, the student dared to experiment with his
professor’s intelligence by interrogating him about the Bible.
Proud
Tone: _____________________________________________________________
Boastful
Mood: ____________________________________________________________
the student dared to experiment with his professor’s intelligence
Clues: _____________________________________________________________
What do I feel?
5. He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the
slightest sound even of a leaf crackling under his own foot.
Fearful
Tone: _____________________________________________________________
Afraid
Mood: _____________________________________________________________
for fear of his imagined pursuers
Clues: _____________________________________________________________
How can you relate
our topic with your
personal life?
Who can give a recap of
what we have discussed
today?
Quiz Time
QUIZ
1. What is the feeling or atmosphere of a literary piece?
A. Tone
B. Technique
C. Mood
D. Imagery
2. How do authors set the tone?
A. Using strong verbs
B. Involving the reader's senses
C. The choice of setting, details, images, and words
D. Through adjectives
QUIZ
3. What feeling does the author cause you to feel for the victim?
A. Happiness
B. Fear
C. No feeling
D. Sympathy
4. What is the writer’s attitude toward a subject or character?
A. Mood
B. Exposition
C. Characterization
D. Tone
QUIZ
5. What is the tone of the given sentence? “Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed
uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F.”
A. Angry
B. Witty
C. Weird
D. Suspicious
6. What is the mood? When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only
two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
A. Relaxed
B. Terrified
C. Worried
D. Perplexed
QUIZ
7. What is the mood? When the Darkness creeping towards me ,I was shaking in fear of IT.
A. Peculiar
B. Relaxed
C. Terrified
D. Worried
8. Which of the following does NOT create mood in a story?
A. Setting Description
B. Imagination
C. Imagery
D. Character Speech/Feeling
QUIZ
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland “She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the
mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms
folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.”
A. Pity
B. Mysterious
C. Discouragement
D. Gloomy
10. The School by Donalod Bathelme(tone)
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with
the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got
thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids
looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”
A. Loss
B. Nostalgia
C. Excited
D. Gloomy
ASSIGNMENT
What is the tone and mood of this picture? What is the artist is trying to
portray? How do you feel about it i? Explain your answer in 3 – 5
sentences. Write your answer on ½ CW
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