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Take Cornell Notes! Mood:

Take Cornell Notes! Mood:. Mood is how the literature makes you, the reader, feel. What else is mood?. Mood is the overall emotion created by a work of literature. It can also be described as the atmosphere the writer creates. Mood.

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Take Cornell Notes! Mood:

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  1. Take Cornell Notes!Mood: Mood is how the literature makes you, the reader, feel.

  2. What else is mood? Mood is the overall emotion created by a work of literature. It can also be described as the atmosphere the writer creates.

  3. Mood Mood can usually be described with one or two adjectives such as bittersweet, playful, or scary.

  4. How do you identify a mood? To find the mood of a piece of literature look at the author’s choice of words, or diction. • Does the author use words that are sad? If so, then the mood is a sad mood. • Does the author use words that are fearful? If so, then the mood is a scary mood.

  5. Example “The funeral procession dragged through the park during the cold afternoon as tears of sorrow flowed freely from the young mother.” • The words in red above describe sadness; therefore, the mood is sad and melancholy.

  6. Example “Thomas turned toward the horrible noise in his closet. The darkness in his room choked his courage away as he heard the squeals of pain become screams of torment.” • The words in red above are describe fear; therefore, this passage has a scary, horrifying mood.

  7. Melancholy Anxious Vivacious Tenacious Vengeful Hopeful Loving Chaotic Peaceful Romantic Fearful Defiant What other words (adjectives) describe mood?

  8. Somber Exuberant Warm Comical Silly Thought-provoking Angry Mundane Suspenseful Light-hearted “Other worldly” Dark Mysterious Sad Joyful What other words (adjectives) describe mood? Continued…

  9. Activity Determine the mood of the following passage: “I am imagining what my father’s nightmares might be. Maybe he dreams of dipping his hands in the sand on a beach in his own country and finds that what he comes up with is blood.” Chose one: Fearful, suspenseful, analytical, hopeful, funny

  10. Answer “I am imagining what my father’s nightmares might be. Maybe he dreams of dipping his hands in the sand on a beach in his own country and finds that what he comes up with is blood.” FEARFUL

  11. Determine the mood of the following passage: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not take both And be one traveler long I stood And looked down one as long as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” Chose one: Fearful, suspenseful, analytical, hopeful, funny

  12. Answer “Tworoads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not take both And be one traveler long I stood And looked down one as long as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth” ANALYTICAL

  13. Determine the mood of the following passage: “The sweep of the pendulum had increased in extent by nearly a yard. As a natural consequence its velocity was also much greater. But what mainly disturbed me was the idea that it had perceptibly descended.” Chose one: Fearful, suspenseful, analytical, hopeful, funny

  14. Answer “The sweep of the pendulum had increased in extent by nearly a yard. As a natural consequence its velocity was also much greater. But what mainly disturbed me was the idea that it had perceptibly descended.” SUSPENSEFUL

  15. Determine the mood of the following passage: “Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home” Chose one: Fearful, suspenseful, analytical, hopeful, funny

  16. Answer “Swing low, sweetchariot, Coming for to carry me home, Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home” HOPEFUL

  17. Determine the mood of the following passage: “If he even seen a straddlebug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddlebug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.” Choose one: Fearful, suspenseful, analytical, hopeful, funny

  18. Answer “If he even seen a straddlebug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddlebug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.” FUNNY

  19. Your assignment: • Complete the “Creating Settings with Moods” worksheet. Write at least 2-3 complete sentences per mood. Due tomorrow.

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