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English
Quarter 3 – Module 6:
Infer the Speaker’s Tone, Mood, and
Purpose
 What I Need to Know

Welcome, to this module of English 4! This was designed to help you infer the speaker’s
tone, mood, and purpose it has platforms with a series of fun activities that will guide you
properly to learn more with the lesson. The module is selfinstructional and allows you to
learn in your own space and step. So, relax and enjoy!

At the end this module, you are expected to:

1. infer the speaker’s tone, mood, and purpose:

2. use formal and informal English when appropriate to task and situation.

What I Know
Infer the general mood, tone, and purpose of the situations. Write the correct letter.
1. If you can’t be a sun be a star.
a. worry b. encouraging c. inspiring

2. Seeing you failed, broke my heart.

a. sad b. to instruct c. courage

3. Lightning flashed, thunders heard, I covered my ears.

a. inspiring b. worry c. fear

4. Always fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.

a. encouraging b. to instruct c. happy

5. There’s a thing called reach-for-your-dream.

a. annoyed b. happy c. inspiring

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 Lesson
Infer the Speaker’s Tone, mood
6 and Purpose

What’s In
In your past lesson, you have learned on how to use appropriate graphic organizers in text read.
Let’s have a review!
Read the following short paragraph and fill out the details using Venn Diagram.
Butterflies and Bees

Butterflies and bees have many things in common. They are both insects that live all over the world.
Another similarity is that they both have 4 wings. Their wings are different though butterflies have
brightly colored wings, and a bee’s wings are transparent. Bees live in large groups called colonies.
Butterflies do not. They often travel by themselves. Butterflies and bees are also similar because they
both feed off nectar and pollen from flowers. When it comes to collecting nectar butterflies are calmly in
getting it, while the bees are exhilarated. https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/4011087140097170/

Are you done?

Read the word below. These are the words highlighted in the paragraphs above.

• calmly
• exhilarated
The words above are examples of tone and mood. Tone refers to the poet’s attitude towards the subject of
the poem. Moods is the overall emotion or feeling expressed in the poem or story.

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 What’s New
Let’s read the poem.
“Be The Best of Whatever You Are” by:
Douglas Malloch
If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley – but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a
bush if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;
If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass- But the
liveliest bass in the lake!

We can’t all be captains, we’ve got to be crew,

There’s something for all of us here,
There’s big work to do, and there’s lesser to do, And the
task you must do is the near.

If you can’t be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can’t be the sun be a star;
It isn’t by size that you win or you fail – Be the
best of whatever you are!

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are-by-douglas-malloch
Question:
1. What is the tone and mood of the poem?
2. What do you think is the poet’s purpose in writing the poem? I. What is tone and mood?

Tone – refers to the poet’s attitude towards the subject or topic of the poem or story.
Mood – is the overall emotion or feeling expressed in the poem or story.

Let’s try this.

A. Read the poem and answer the following questions.

http://thelightofliterature.blogspot.com/2010/10/road-not-taken.html

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 The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there Had
worn them really about the same,
https://literarydevices.net/mood/

1. The word that best describes the tone of this poem is__________.

a. inspired b. frustrated c. sympathetic d. anxious

2. The word that best describes the mood of this poem is_________.

a. realistic b. sorrowful c. cautious d. surprising

What is It
Tone refers to the poet’s attitude towards the subject or topic of the poem.

Moods is the overall emotion or feeling expressed in the poem or story.

A poet’s purpose in writing may be to instruct or inform, to entertain, or to persuade.

Let’s explain:

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 “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

And which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-This-Is-Just-To-Say-by-William-Carlos-
Williams

- What is the author’s tone towards the subject of forgiveness?

- Tone word: Insincere

http://slacker760.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-fall-of-house-of-usher.html

“The Fall of the House of Usher” By:

Edgar Allan Poe

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung
oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing along, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of
country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy
House of Usher…I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled luster
by the dwelling…[with] vacant and eye-like windows.

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-tone-fall-house-usher-304840

- What is the mood of the paragraph?

- Mood word: Depressing

What’s More
A. Infer the speaker’s tone, mood, or purpose. Choose from the box below.

confused fear
instruct sad worry
1. Seeing you crying is very painful to me.
2. You always remember to strive to achieve dreams.
3. Dark place on my way.
4. I don’t know if I will go to school or not.
5. It’s noon but I haven’t cooked yet.
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 What I Have Learned
Write a short essay about what you learned in this lesson.

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What I Can Do
I. Infer the speaker’s tone, mood, and purpose.

The Garden of Proserpine by

Algernon Charles Swinburne

There go the loves that wither,

The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither,
And all disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken,
Blind buds that snows have shaken, Wild
leaves that winds have taken,
Red strays of ruined springs.

1. What mood do the details in the poem convey?

a. wastefulness and excess

b. happiness
c. sadness and despair
d. mistrust https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45288/the-garden-of-proserpine

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 Assessment

Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows.

1. It was the first football game for the Gators. The coach asked if everyone was ready. The
players jumped and replied, “Yes!” In what tone did the Gators’s reply?
a. calm b. serious c. happy d. enthusiastic

2. The blue jay is jumping on the tree singing and dancing happily. What is the blue jay’s
tone while singing?
a. joyful b. dreamy c. confused d. hurt
3. The alarm buzzed. Jordan smashed her first down on it-hard. It flew off the nightstand and
bounced off her cat, Armstrong. The cat yowled indignantly and rocketed out the room.
a. eerie b. sarcastic c. passionate d. humorous

4. Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly! Which
tone is represented in the following passage?
a. calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited

5. If the author has no emotion regarding the story he is telling; his tone can be described as.
a. playful b. objective c. ironic d. mysterious

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 Additional Activities

Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows.

1. What is the tone of the following text? “I will not!” she shouted. “I will not be left at the
mercy of our enemies while you slink away!”
a. pleased b. angry c. happy d. suspicious

2. She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could
sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting. What is the mood for the
passage?
a. romantic b. depressing c. joyful d. suspenseful

3. Which word accurately describes the son’s tone in the following dialogue? Father: We are
going to Disney World!
Son: Yehey!
a. irritated b. annoyed c. uninterested d. excited

4. She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket.
a. calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited

5. A hurricane threatened, the wind’s blast caused angry fifteen-foot waves to crash over the
small houses near the shore.
a. calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited

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Answer Key

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References

DepEd (2016). Joy in Learning English. Teacher’s Guide.

Authors: Kristine Erika C. Castillo and Evelyn B. Angeles

Deped (2016). Joy in Learning English. Textbook

Authors: Kristine Erika C. Castillo and Evelyn B. Angeles

Pages. 60-61

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/be-the-best-of-whatever-you-are-bydouglas-
malloch https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/4011087140097170/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zsaCWoWC0
https://literarydevices.net/mood/
http://www1.lpssonline.com/uploads/3gTeachingToneandMood.pdf
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45288/the-garden-of-proserpine
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-tone-in-a-story.html
https://literarydevices.net/mood/
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-This-Is-Just-To-Say-byWilliam-Carlos-
Williams

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-tone-fall-house-usher-304840

https://interestingliterature.com/2016/11/a-short-analysis-of-christina-rossettisa-birthday/

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