1. Tone vs mood & Motif
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2. What is the difference between mood and tone
Essential question

3. mood is me feeling as I read
The emotion that the reader feels as they read the text
Example if you feel sad after reading a narrative, the mood is sad.
mood is me feeling as I read

4. Think the tone of voice of the writer Sit down and open your books
The author’s emotion or attitude toward the story/topic.
The way that emotions are expressed
Think the tone of voice of the writer
Sit down and open your books

5. mood Memory tips tone How Me reading it feels
How does the writer’s Attitude comes across.

6. Example one
Example 1
The boy looked at the annoying, slacker girl who refused to do her work and told her “you are so lazy, you came in last for a snail race.”
Tone----
Mood--

7. Example
Example 1
The boy looked at the annoying, slacker girl who refused to do her work and told her “you are so lazy, you came in last for a snail race.”
Tone---- frustrated, insulting
Mood--

8. Example
Example 1
The boy looked at the annoying, slacker girl who refused to do her work and told her “you are so lazy, you came in last for a snail race.”
Tone---- frustrated, insulting
Mood-- amusing, humorous

9. Motif A recurring theme, idea, object, image that repeats itself
often supports the idea of the theme
(the theme of a Christmas carol can be How being greedy can isolate you, a motif of A Christmas carol is scrooge constantly being alone)
Essentially, they are symbols that are consistently repeated
We can have motifs within a story and or that unite several stories

10. Motif
Examples
a common motif in Poe’s work is death, but the theme in each story may differ
Three is a common motif in European Fairy tales (three pigs, three bears, three wishes, three nights, three fairies, etc…)
The mockingjay is a motif as well as a symbol in The Hunger games, as well as hunger.
wishes gone wrong or not ending up the way the wisher intended is a common contemporary motif