Mood
&
Tone
It’s how you feel
&
how you say it
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MOOD
How the story makes you feel!
What is mood?
• Has a story ever made you feel giddy,
anxious, hopeful, or flat-out terrified?
– The author has succeeded in making you
experience these emotions because of the
way he established mood. The mood is the
feeling you get from a story.
– Pay attention to the words used to describe
the setting, the characters, and the action.
– How do those words make you feel?
Mood in Art
• Artists establish mood using colors,
textures, lines, and shapes.
• Look at the following paintings and
analyze your mood.
– Decide if the art is positive or negative.
– Record a mood word or feeling that you have
when you look at the painting.
– What details in the painting make you feel this
way?
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Mood
• Mood is the feeling or atmosphere that a
writer creates for the reader.
• Descriptive words, imagery, and figurative
language all influence the mood of a work
• Remember
– Mood is how you feel when reading a story.
Connotation
• A word’s connotations are the ideas and
feelings associated with the word, as
opposed to its dictionary definition.
• For example, the word “mother” has a
dictionary definition (“female parent”), but
it also has a connotation of love, warmth,
and security.
Connotation
• thin . . . . . . thin, slender, slim, skinny,
lean, beanpole
• attractive . . . pretty, beautiful, handsome,
fair
• drug addict . . . druggie, drug fiend,
substance abuser
• unattractive . . plain, dull, ugly
Tone
• The tone of a literary work expresses the
writer’s attitude toward his or her subjects.
• Words such as angry and humorous can
be used to describe a writer’s tone.
• Remember
– Tone is how the story is told.
– Think about the tone of your voice and how
you say things.
Tone
• “You’re a big help!”
• or “You’re a big help…”
How does the tone and mood
differ in these two movie trailers
for the same film?
• Mary Poppins original trailer
• Mary Poppins trailer 2