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Tone and Mood

Explore how subtle changes in tone and mood can drastically alter the reader's experience in literature. Understand the meaning of tone and mood and learn how authors use them to convey their feelings and create atmosphere. Examples from renowned poets and authors included.

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Tone and Mood

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  1. Tone and Mood

  2. Watch the next few videos and see how a few subtle changes can alter everything!

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  7. The story is the same, but why does it feel different? • The changes to the tone of the trailers (done with music and selected scenes) leave the audience with a completely different mood!

  8. What is tone? • Just like you can change your tone of voice to alter how people interpret your meaning, poets and authors choose particular words to set a tone/show their feelings about their subject. • Tone is the voice of the speaker/poet.

  9. Tone can be described using adjectives.

  10. Tone Example • In the poem “Dreams”, Langston Hughes’ tone is hopeful and optimistic. • He is telling the audience to hold on to dreams, not giving them up. • Hughes compares lost dreams to broken birds or harsh, cold landscapes.

  11. Tone Example • In “Casida del Llanto” (“The Weeping”), what tone is Federico Garcia Lorca conveying? • Hint: Look at the title, then at words like: • Weeping • Shut • Grey • Tears

  12. What is the tone in this Shel Silverstein poem?

  13. What is mood? • Mood is the atmosphere of the poem/how the poem makes the audience feel. • Mood can be inspired by the tone of the author.

  14. Mood can also be described using adjectives like . . .

  15. Mood Example • In the poem “The Waves”, Virginia Woolf uses imagery to set a mood of calm and serenity. • She uses simple verbs and speaks affectionately about common household items to show how comforting solitude can be. • Imagery like a sea-bird opening its wings help show how liberating and peaceful simplicity is.

  16. Mood Example • In “Still I Rise” (“The Weeping”), what tone is Maya Angelou conveying? • Hint: Look at the title, then at words like: • Rise • Sassiness • Walk • Hopes

  17. What is the mood in this Edgar Allen Poe poem?

  18. Did you like Lorca’s poem? This is “The Weeping” in the original Spanish. He cerrado mi balcón porque no quiero oír el llanto pero por detrás de los grises muros no se oye otra cosa que el llanto. Hay muy pocos ángeles que canten, hay muy pocos perros que ladren, mil violines caben en la palma de mi mano. Pero el llanto es un ángel inmenso, el llanto es un perro inmenso, el llanto es un violín inmenso, las lágrimas amordazan al viento y no se oye otra cosa que el llanto.

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