Thursday 22 nd April 2010 Mood & Atmosphere Success criteria: I understand and identify the techniques used to create atmosphere. I can plan a response to an exam-style question.

Whole Text Level / Structural Features: Tense – future / present Repetition / patterning Lexical set (death) Narrative voice (1 st person) & stance Control of information Generic features Characterisation Sentence Level Features (Linguistic): Simple & minor sentences Declarative / interrogative / exclamatory mood Commas & subordinate clauses Listing (syndetic / asyndetic) Use of adverbials / foregrounding Colons Word Level Features (Linguistic): “will” (auxiliary verb) semantic fields / lexical sets connotations modifiers / adjectives nouns – abstract, concrete, proper verbs (dynamic, stative, auxiliary) pronouns determiners / articles compound words coinages Literary Techniques: Symbolism & motifs Personification Pathetic fallacy Similes Metaphors Onomatopoeia / alliteration / assonance Mood & Atmospher e

Exam-Style Question – Due Tuesday 27 th April Remind yourself of the extract from p in “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, dated Saturday, October 27, Discuss how mood and atmosphere is created in this extract. Go on to explore how mood and atmosphere is created in at least two other scenes in this novel and in “The Time Machine”. Use the cone to structure your approach Compare to the first time we saw these events from Clare’s perspective & the last time we see them from Henry’s older perspective. Select 2 scenes in “The Time Machine” when a similar mood is created. Analyse & compare in detail. Consider how narrative stance & voice as well as control of information affect mood & atmosphere as well as analysing on sentence & word level (including imagery).