Grade 7 · English Language Arts · Unit 4 of 12

Tone & Mood

How writing feels and sounds

What your child practises

Telling the writer's attitude (tone) apart from the reader's feeling (mood), and seeing how word choice and connotation shape both.

Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Responses · tone and mood

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

Question 1
Which word best describes the writer's tone?
Oh, wonderful. The bus is late again. I just love standing in the rain for twenty minutes.
- Joyful
- Fearful
- Sincere
- Sarcastic
Question 2
Which word best describes the writer's tone?
My little brother's idea of “helping” in the kitchen is eating the chocolate chips before they reach the bowl. So far, he has helped with zero cookies and about four hundred chocolate chips.
- Tragic
- Formal
- Humorous
- Furious
Question 3
Which word best describes the writer's tone?
Please read this carefully. If you see a fallen power line, stay at least ten metres away and call 911 right away.
- Nostalgic
- Urgent
- Playful
- Sarcastic
Question 4
Which word best describes the mood of this passage?
The lake was still. A loon called once across the water, and the last light of evening turned the clouds pink.
- Angry
- Peaceful
- Frantic
- Silly
Question 5
Sort the words by connotation. Does each word sound positive or negative?
Sort into: 👍 Positive · 👎 Negative
- 🎯determined
- 😎confident
- 🔒stingy
- 😌relaxed
- 🛋️lazy
- 👃nosy
Question 6
Which word best describes the writer's tone?
The movie's plot was predictable, the jokes fell flat, and the ending dragged on for twenty minutes too long.
- Nostalgic
- Admiring
- Critical
- Fearful