Mood and Tone Worksheet
Mood and Tone Worksheet
Mood and Tone Worksheet
Period:
Directions: For each passage, identify the tone, what words and context clues are used to convey the tone, and the
overall mood of the sentence.
1. Streaking into the room, she grinned widely, lit up like a firefly, and announced, “| am getting married!!”
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence
2. Huddled silently under the table, she clung to the only picture she had of her parents and shook convulsively as her
wide eyes scanned the floor for the feet in heavy boots.
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence
3. Bursting suddenly through the door, a harried old mailwoman collapsed in a breathless heap after slamming the door
in the face of a growling dog.
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence
4. Drawing the attention of his teammates and the crowd, #9 took a daring shot from far beyond the 3 point line.
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence
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.
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence
6. Gently smiling, the mother tenderly tucked the covers up around the child’s neck, and carefully, quietly, left the room
making sure to leave a comforting ray of light shining through the opened door should the child wake.
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence
7. The laughing wind skipped through the village, teasing trees until they danced with anger and cajoling the grass into
fighting itself, blade slapping blade, as the silly dog with golf ball eyes and flopping, slobbery tongue bounded across the
lawn.
Tone:
Mood:
Evidence