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Exploring Tone and Mood
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Exploring Tone and Mood
Read each question carefully. Use evidence from the passage to support your analysis.
Tone, Mood and Atmosphere
1.Match each literary term with its meaning.
- Tone
- Mood
- Atmosphere
- The feeling or emotional response a text encourages in its reader
- The writer’s attitude towards the subject or audience
- The feeling suggested by a text’s setting and surrounding details
2.Which detail is most likely to establish a tense atmosphere in a story?
- A kettle softly humming in a sunny kitchen
- A loose shutter banging as dark clouds gather
- Children laughing beside a calm lake
- Fresh sheets drying in a warm breeze
3.Select all the words that could describe a writer’s tone.
- Ironic
- Triangular
- Admiring
- Resentful
- Narrow
- Playful
Reading and Analysis
By the time Ivy reached the jetty, the last ferry was already pulling away. Its lights shivered across the black water, then slipped behind the headland. Rain tapped the metal roof above him, steady as a clock counting down. He checked his phone: no signal, and the next crossing was not until morning. Across the bay, a single window glowed in the hills. Ivy zipped his jacket and began the long walk towards it.
4.What mood is most strongly created in the passage? Explain how one detail supports your interpretation.
5.Select three words or phrases from the passage that help create its atmosphere.
6.How do the setting and Ivy’s circumstances shape your understanding of his situation? Refer to at least two details from the passage.
7.Which description best captures the writer’s tone towards Ivy’s predicament?
- Mocking and dismissive
- Quietly sympathetic, with suspense
- Celebratory and triumphant
- Detached and humorous
Creating and Reflecting
8.Choose an Australian setting and a specific mood. Write a descriptive paragraph of four to five sentences that uses details of place and carefully chosen language to create that mood. State your setting and intended mood before your paragraph.
9.Explain one way that noticing tone and mood can change or deepen a reader’s interpretation of a text.
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