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Notes: Tone and Mood/Atmosphere

Notes: Tone and Mood/Atmosphere. Essential Question. How do elements of a plot such as conflict, tone, mood/setting effect the characters’ actions, motivations, and reactions? Explain. What is tone?. Tone is: 1. the author’s attitude toward characters and subject.

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Notes: Tone and Mood/Atmosphere

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  1. Notes: Tone and Mood/Atmosphere

  2. Essential Question How do elements of a plot such as conflict, tone, mood/setting effect the characters’ actions, motivations, and reactions? Explain.

  3. What is tone? Tone is: 1. the author’s attitude toward characters and subject.

  4. How can you identify tone? Identifying tone • Dialogue • Author’s use of adjectives • Adjectives: words that describe 4. descriptive language

  5. What is dialogue? Dialogue 1. Things characters say 2. quotation marks-around what is said Ex: “I hate you!” she screamed.

  6. What is mood? Mood is the overallfeeling, or atmosphere created in a story Mood is how the story makes you feel while reading it. Created through setting

  7. How are tone and mood created in a story? Tone and Mood are created through 1. setting: time and place 2. dialogue: things characters say 3. plot = the events of the story: 4. descriptions of the people, places, things, and events

  8. How do you identify tone and mood? To identify tone and mood look at the words = clues 1. descriptions of the a. setting (mood) b. characters 2 . dialogue: what the characters say to each other (tone) 3. plot- what happens in the story (tone/ mood)

  9. What are examples of tone? Examples of tone 1.“Thanks,” she frowned and said sarcastically. 2. “Thanks!” she smiled and said excitedly.

  10. Analysis of tone: Sentence 1: the tone is sarcastic and unhappy. Authors words: frowned, sarcastically. Sentence 2: tone is happy and excited. Authors use of words: smiled, excitedly

  11. What are examples of mood? Ex: Mood Romantic, happy, sad, serious, scary

  12. Examples of tone 1.“Thanks,” she frowned and said sarcastically. 2. “Thanks!” she smiled and said excitedly Ex: Mood Romantic, happy, sad, serious, scary

  13. Notes: Setting

  14. Definition (provided) Setting is where the story takes place. Setting is the where and when of a story: time and place Characteristics The setting: 1. helps create the mood, or feeling, of a story. 2. the author’s choice of words to describe the setting show tone and mood. Word: Setting

  15. Examples: a cave, an amusement park a school, a home… (there are millions of settings!!) Non-examples: dark, gloomy, makes your skin crawl, peaceful, These words are NOT settings. They describe the settings (mood words)

  16. Definition (provided) Tone = author’s attitude toward: 1. subject 2. characters Characteristics: 1. Tone in writing is like tone of voice in speaking 2. Tone shows a writer’sfeelings or views Word: Tone

  17. Examples 1. “I hate gym class!” she exclaimed angrily. 2. The warm sunny day made her smile. 3. “I don’t believe it!” she yelled excitedly. **These all have words that show feelings. Non-examples 1. She has gym class first period. 2. The day was warm and sunny. 3. They ate lunch at 12:15 yesterday. *Non of these have words that show feelings.

  18. Word: Mood

  19. Setting and Mood *Remember, just as your surroundings can affect how you feel and act, so the setting affects characters in a story.

  20. Directions: Listen to the description. Think about the setting and the mood. • Jared told himself he wasn’t afraid. Yet, this cave was dark. It was cold. It was smelly. He had probably been wondering around in here for an hour already. Just then, he heard a rustling sound. He wondered what kinds of creatures live in caves.

  21. Jared told himself he wasn’t afraid. Yet, this cave was dark. It was cold. It was smelly. He had probably been wondering around in here for an hour already. Just then, he heard a rustling sound. He wondered what kinds of creatures live in caves.

  22. Notes: Id and analyze idioms

  23. L.O. I will be able to identify idioms within the text and use context clues to chart the meanings

  24. Importance To better understand what you read

  25. What is the definition of an idiom? An idiom is: 1. type of figurative language 2. an expression or figure of speech

  26. What are some characteristics of idioms? Idioms: 1. not literal (not word for word) 2. words say one thing but mean something else. 3. are unique to a certain language, time period, or place

  27. Why do authors use idioms? Authors use idioms to: 1. help bring tone to a story 2. help make a story more like ‘real life’

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