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Exploring Tone and Mood

Exploring Tone and Mood. What is the difference between these literary terms?. Basics. There are 2 main tricks to remembering TONE and MOOD: T one- the au T hor’s attitude m OO d - feelings created in the reader ( y OU ). Tone.

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Exploring Tone and Mood

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  1. Exploring Tone and Mood What is the difference between these literary terms?

  2. Basics There are 2 main tricks to remembering TONE and MOOD: Tone- the auThor’s attitude mOOd- feelings created in the reader (yOU)

  3. Tone The author or writer’s attitude toward his/ her AUDIENCE and SUBJECT. Normally described by a single adjective: FormalInformalPlayful BitterSeriousIronic

  4. The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  5. What is the tone? What tells you?

  6. Mood The feeling created in the reader (you) by the literary work or passage -Often suggested by descriptive details Normally described in a single word: LightheartedFrightening Despairing

  7. The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  8. What is the mood? How does it make you feel? What makes you feel that way?

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