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5 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
Distinguish between tone and mood, with one example from "Pike".
Ask whose feeling it is: the speaker's or the reader's.
What is the mood at the end of the poem, and which details create it?
Look at sight, sound, the speaker's body and the final image.
Which phrase best describes the tone of the opening stanzas?
The speaker is fascinated, but not comfortable.
The countdown of the pike in the tank is told in a tone that is best described as:
The voice shows no emotion.
Imagine you are reading "Pike" aloud for a recording. Describe how you would vary your voice, pace and pauses in each of the poem's stages to convey its changing tone and mood.
For each stage, decide on volume, speed, pauses and emotion.
Compare the speaker's tone at the beginning and at the end of the poem, and explain what the change reveals about his relationship with nature.
Compare what the speaker knows and controls at the start with what he knows and controls at the end.
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