Words and Feelings
5th Grade•40 minutes•Determine the meaning of the words, phrases, figurative langugae, academic, and content-specific words and analyze their effect on meaning, tone or mood
Learning Objective
I can explain how specific words create different feelings in a story.
Key Concepts
The mood of a story is the feeling or atmosphere that the author creates for the reader.
Authors create mood through word choice, imagery, and setting.
Imagery uses descriptive language to appeal to the five senses and helps to establish the mood of a story.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 8 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. What is 'mood' in a story, and how does it affect the reader?
2. Which of the following literary devices are used to create mood in a story?
3. The sentence 'The old house stood on a hill, creaking in the wind, with broken windows staring out like empty eyes' creates what kind of mood?
...and 5 more questions
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