Mood & Tone Mood is the feeling that a piece of literature creates in the reader. Tone is a author’s attitude toward the subject matter.

Moods Can Be Positive or Negative Hopeful Cheerful Joyous Playful Peaceful Gloomy Violent Tense Heartbroken Painful

How Does a Writer Create Mood? The mood colors the whole passage and creates a feeling in the reader. The length of the sentences, the words that are chosen, the punctuation used, and the sound of words all work to create the mood of a passage.

We Also See Mood in Images What mood does this image create?

We Can See Mood in Our Surroundings What mood is created in this room?

We Can See Mood in Movie Scenes What mood is created in this scene?

Poets Create Mood in Their Poetry It’s New Year’s Day in China Town, another year is counted down. Fireworks shoot showers of light lanterns wave burning bright. Children dance in the crowd, smiling faces cheer out loud. Dragons twist up and down, for it’s New Year’s Day in China Town. Chinese New Year

Grace Before we even said grace He sat and filled up his face He gorged on salami Ate all the pastrami Then exploded with nary a trace

Tone While mood is the feeling that a poem creates in a reader, tone is the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience of the poem. Look for clues in the language the writer uses to identify how the writer feels about the subject.

Mood and tone don’t always match Read the following poems. Let’s talk about how mood differs from tone.

Example of Tone The Crocodile How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the water of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin! How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws! 1.What is the subject of the poem? 2.What clues tell the reader the poet’s attitude towards the subject? 3.What is the tone? Subject: Crocodiles Tone: Attitude towards crocodiles is they are dangerous.

You’re Through With Us We’re leaving you, dear teacher For a grade that’s higher up You’ve suffered with us through the months ‘Twas hard and it’s been tough! You’re going to miss us desperately We’ll tell the world it’s so You’ll sob and moan with misery Your tears will gush and flow. Be brave, and face the future But we must tell you true That when we leave this class of yours We’re far more scared than you!

My Shadow I HAVE a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow— Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none of him at all. Go To Next Slide To Continue Poem

He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close beside me, he’s a coward you can see; I’d think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me! One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. What is the tone of “My Shadow”?

On your own… Go back to the scenes you analyzed for tone last time. On the worksheet make a new column and label it mood. Determine the mood for each of the passages.`