Tone and Mood of Text
ACTIVITY 2
DIRECTIONS: Read the text and answer the questions that follow.
Circle your choice.
1. Read the following poem, "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti and answer the
question below.
My heart is like a singing bird. Whose nest is a weathered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree. Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell, that paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;
My heart is gladder than all these, because my love has come to me.
QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey?
(Look specifically at the three things the speaker compares her heart to.)
a. sorrow b. happiness c. excitement d. nervousness
2. Read the following lines from "The Garden of Proserpine" by Algernon
Swinburne. Then answer the question below.
There go the loves that wither [dry up], The old loves with wearier wings;
And all dead years draw thither [there], And disastrous things;
Dead dreams of days forsaken, Blind buds that snows have shaken,
Wild leaves that winds have taken, Red strays of ruined springs…
And love, grown faint and fretful, With lips but half regretful SighsAnd with eyes forgetful, Weeps that no loves endure [last].
QUESTION: What mood do the details in the poem convey?
a. Wastefulness and excess
b. happiness
c. Sadness and despair
d. mistrust
3. Which tone is represented in the following passage?
She delicately placed the cooing baby on a soft, freshly cleaned blanket.
a. Calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited
4. Which tone is represented in the following passage?
As that 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
5. Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Ugh! Do I have to sit through another boring lecture on data entry again?
a. Calm b. annoyed c. scary d. excited
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Answer:
1.a 2.c3b
. 4. d5.b
Explanation:
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