Foreshadowing, mood, and tone web quest

Introduction

Welcome to the foreshadowing, mood, and tone web quest. The purpose of this web quest is to help you define literary elements you will be using in your personal narrative.

Task

You will be working through this web quest to identify definitions for foreshadowing, mood, and tone; and to help identify foreshadowing, mood, and tone in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Click on the "Process" tab for further instructions.

Process

Step One: Download the worksheet on Moodle. (Go to: Personal Narrative then click on the worksheet titled: Foreshadowing, mood, and tone web quest.)

 

Step Two: Watch these videos and complete the correlating questions on your worksheet. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tooj33VgjaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdkY8FRSkGg

 

Step Three: Read these articles and complete the correlating questions on your worksheet.

http://www.literarydevices.com/tone/

https://literarydevices.net/mood/

 

Step Four: Open "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe on Moodle. Complete questions 15, 16, and 17 on your worksheet.

 

Step Five: When you have completed your worksheet, submit it on Moodle on the spot where it says "Turn in: Foreshadowing, mood, and tone web quest"

Evaluation

Please submit the completed worksheet on Moodle on the spot where it says "Turn in: Foreshadowing, mood, and tone web quest"

Conclusion

Thank you for completing the web quest. The purpose of this web quest was to identify the effects of foreshadowing, mood, and tone on a narrative so that we can apply these techniques to our own writing.

 

Reading Standards for Literature

RL.9–10.1

Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

RL.9–10.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

 

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