Independent Assessment 1 Directions. Read each statement carefully. Complete the given table by identifying
the Tone and Mood of the given text.
Tone
Mood
1. He strode quickly across the inlaid
Floor, snarling and fierce: His eyes
Gleamed in the darkness, burned with a gruesome
Light. Then he stopped. seeing the hall
Crowded with sleeping warriors, stuffed
With rows of young soldiers resting together.
(The Battle with Grandei from Beowulf Translated by Burton Raflen)
2. "Look ye come on fiercely and slay that traitor Sir
Modred, for I in no wise trust him."
("The Day of Destiny' from Morte D Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)
3. Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait.
("Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
4. What riches have you that you deem me poor,
Or what large comfort that you call me sad?
Tell me what makes you so exceeding glad:
(Sonnet 29 by George Santayana)
5. I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul
(Invictus by William Emest Henley)​