ENGLISH 9

Quarter 3 - Week 2

Identifying Tone and Mood

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Lesson:
Third Quarter

Week 2
Identifying Tone and Mood

What I Need to Know

After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. differentiate tone from mood
2. identify the tone of the speaker
3. determine the mood created by the text/passage

What’s In
How good are you in reading the mood of the person you are dealing with? By
simply watching them how they act or behave we can already recognize their
mood. If your mom hums while cleaning the house and doing other household
chores that shows she is happy but if she slams the door and grumbles to herself,
you better keep out of her way because she is in bad mood.
Stories and poems have mood too and that could be identified through the
words and expressions used by the author.
Read on and do the activities that follow to find out what is the lesson all about.

What’s New
Directions: Read the excerpt from the first chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz by L. Frank Baum below. Then, answer the questions that follow.
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see
nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the
broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
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The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running
through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the
long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the
house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it
away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
The cyclone had set the house down in the midst of a country of marvelous
beauty. There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees
bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand,
and birds with rare and brilliant feathers sang and fluttered in the trees and
bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between
green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived
so long on the dry, gray prairies.

Source:”Recognizing Tone and Mood,” Taylor Associates Communications, Inc., accessed July
18, 2020, https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2086007/PDFs/Teaching-Resources/6-Point-
ofView/rpskills-intermediate-worksheet-6c-recognizing-mood-and-tone-lesson-1.pdf
Comprehension Questions:
1.How was the setting described in the first stanza?
2. What feeling / emotion did the setting evoke in you? What words in the excerpt
made you feel that way?

What Is It
Tone refers to the attitude of the author or narrator towards the subject.
Mood is the emotion created on the readers by a piece of writing. It is what the
reader feels while reading a piece of writing.
Both tone and mood deal with the emotion of a piece of writing. They have
similarities and differences as shown in the Venn diagram below.

Source: “Tone and Mood,” accessed July 19, 2020, https://4.files.edl.io/8ff9/10/19/18/14354953317917-d071-424e-

a8fd74a8a8fe2257.pdf
Examine and study carefully the following examples.
Example#1
The door swings open to reveal all of my family members standing around the
Christmas tree with several gifts around it. The lights are twinkling and the
fireplace is roaring with a warm fire. Everyone is singing Christmas carols as the
rain continues to pour outside the window.

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*In this example the atmosphere which is written in bold conveys that the mood of
the passage is cozy or familiar.

Example #2 “Would you be so kind as to help me with my groceries?” asked the

elderly woman. “Not a problem madam”, replied the young man, “I would be
happy to help.”
* In this example the content of the dialogue itself relays the tone which is polite.
The underlined expressions served as cues to determine its tone.
Source: “Mood and Tone Practice,”, Lina Ell, accessed July 23, 2020,
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/linaizzie/mood-and-tone-practice

What’s More
Activity 1: TONE me up!
DIRECTIONS: Guided by the underlined words/lines, identify the tone of the
following passages.
1. My annoying brother likes to drive me crazy.
There is no other who is that lazy.
He whines to Mom and Dad night and day Until he eventually gets his way. What
is a sister to do
When he screams ‘til he’s blue? There is no way to win,
For he gets under your skin.
He does his best to kill all joy.
Oh how my brother does annoy!
A. compassionate B. annoyed C. bewildered D. cheerful
2. I called my friend at their house, her brother said she’s not home, but I heard
her voice come over the line.
A. suspicious B. excited C. sincere D. solemn
3.We’re contacting you today to let you know about the Special Olympics annual
fund drive. You’ve been kind enough to support us generously in the past and we’d
like to ask for your help again as we send our athletes with special needs to
compete at the national level. Please fill out the form below and return it in the
enclosed envelope with your donation. It will make a child’s day if you do.
A. informal/sarcastic C. accusatory / critical
B. formal /polite D. intimate /solemn
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4.Lala sat on the old, lumpy couch crying. She could let it out all here, alone in
mother’s small, quiet apartment in the village. The familiar walls were covered in
rose pink wallpaper. Goldie, her mother’s eleventh fish, seemed to stare
sympathetically at Lala through the fishbowl sitting on the counter. The smell of
her mother’s vanilla candles comforted her aching heart.
A. happy B. contented C. inspired D. sad
5. There is no one That can be better Because you are brilliant.
There is nothing that you cannot do Because you are unbeatable.
There is no place that you cannot go
Because you are always welcomed
There is no person that can hold you back Because you are unstoppable.
A. mournful B. outraged C. inspired D. cheerful

Source: “Mood and Tone Practice,”, Lina Ell, accessed July 23, 2020,
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/linaizzie/mood-and-tone-practice

Activity 2: Check your MOOD

DIRECTIONS: Determine the mood best described in the following paragraphs as
hinted by the italicized words/lines.
1. She found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps
hanging from the roof. There were doors all ’round the hall, but they were all
locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other,
trying every door, she walked down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get
out again.
(from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
A. excited B. funny C. mysterious D. ridiculous
2. The front door, which had neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and stained.
Passersby snuck into the recess and struck matches on the panels. Children kept
shop upon the steps. More than one schoolboy had scratched his initials on the
moldings. For close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these
random visitors or to repair their damages. (From The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A. welcoming and appealing C. gloomy and decaying
B. protective and guarded D. calm and restful
3. Saturday morning has come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh
and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart, and if the heart was
young, the music issued at the lips. (From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain)
A. doubtful B. graceful C. powerful D. cheerful
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4. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering,
indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mr.
Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought
with it clouds so somber, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise
was now out of the question. (From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)
A. disappointed B. satisfied C. agreeable D. questionable
5. She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were
all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In
the street below a peddler was carrying his wares. The notes of a distant song,
which someone was singing, reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were
twittering in the eaves. (From The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
A. pleasant B. serious C. cautious D. amusing

What I have Learned

Tone simply refers to how the author feels towards the subject, or towards
something. You will know what the author’s tone is implying by the words he
uses.
Some Important Tone Words
• Accusatory: charging of wrong doing
• Bitter: exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
• Critical: finding fault
• Earnest: intense, a sincere state of mind
• Intimate: very familiar
• Matter-of-fact: accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
• Optimistic: hopeful, cheerful
• Pessimistic: showing lack of hope, expecting bad to happen
• Reverent: treating a subject with honor and respect
• Reflective: illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions
• Sarcastic: sneering, caustic
• Sincere: without deceit or pretense; genuine
• Solemn: deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection
• Remorseful: feeling guilty or sorry for doing something bad or wrong
• Romantic: involving love or romance
While ‘mood’, refers to the feeling of the atmosphere the author is describing. It is
what the author makes you feel when you read his writings. You can read a
sentence, and feel sad, happy or angry.

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• Writers use many devices to create mood, including images, dialogue,
setting, and plot.
Some Important Mood Words
• The following are examples of moods that a text can cause the reader to
feel:
• Suspense Lonely
• Happy Angry
• Anxious Tensed
• Suspicious Excited
• Depressed Scared
• Disgusted Sympathetic
• Grateful Passionate/Romantic
• Enlightened Jealous
Source: “Tone and Mood,” accessed July 19, 2020, https://4.files.edl.io/8ff9/10/19/18/14354 953317917-d071-424e-a8fd 74
a8a8fe2257.pdf

What I Can Do On My Own

Directions: Identify the tone and the overall mood of each situation. Write your
answer on your answer sheet.
1 -2. 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.
Tone ___________________________
Mood ___________________________
3-4. She huddled in the corner, clutching her tattered blanket and shaking
convulsively, as she feverishly searched the room for the unknown dangers that
awaited her.
Tone ________________________
Mood ________________________

Source:”Tone and Mood Worksheet,” Innet Teacher, accessed July 25, 2020,
http://www.inetteacher.com/upload1/102670/docs/ToneMood%20Worksheet.pdf

Key to Correction
What’s In
*Answers may vary

What Is It
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Activity 1: Tone Me Up
1. B

2. A