Tone and Mood

TONE TONE is the author’s attitude or feeling toward the subject or text. You can recognize the tone/attitude by the language/word choices the author uses. It can be positive or negative

TONE EXAMPLE Finally, one of the girls pointed to the grass and giggled. "Meow!" A cat sat on the edge of the field and licked its paw. They did indeed have company. The girls ran over to the cat and pet his belly. They laughed and the cat ran back to the field.

Tone from the examples is ___________________________________ 1. Mr. Jones, since you obviously appear to know everything, would you like to come up here and teach this class for me? Tone is _____________________________________. 2. Did you see what he just did? My goodness! Tone is __________________.

Tone from the examples is 3. Your essay? Oh, it was just fabulous. Really, I’ve never seen anything like it. Tone is _____________________________________ 4. This is one of the best essays I’ve ever seen. It’s clear, concise, and convincing. Tone is ____________________.

MOOD MOOD is the overall feelings or emotions that are created IN THE READER.

MOOD EXAMPLE Mood from the example is __________ After New Year's the time came to put all the decorations away and settle in for the long, cold winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now waited pitifully by the side of the road to be picked up. Mood from the example is __________

MOOD EXAMPLE “The Bully,” by Paul Langan: “On Friday morning, Darrell headed to the supermarket parking lot with ten dollars. The four-block walk from home felt like the longest walk he had ever taken. Each step required great effort, as if his feet were made of concrete. Even the money in his pockets felt uncomfortably heavy, and every muscle in his legs and back felt

MOOD EXAMPLE slow and achy. It was as if his body was quietly protesting what he was doing. Darrell knew that paying Tyray was wrong. The shame and guilt he felt for giving his mother’s money to a bully swept over him in unending waves.” What is the mood of the passage __________________?

MOOD EXAMPLE “Animal Farm,” by George Orwell “A little way down the pasture there was a knoll that commanded a view of most of the farm. The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light. Yes, it was theirs – everything that they could see was theirs! In the ecstasy of that thought they gamboled round and round, they hurled

MOOD EXAMPLE themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement. They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent. It was as though they had never seen these things before, and even now they could hardly believe that it was all their own.” What is the mood of the passage ________?

MOOD EXAMPLE Movie Mood of original Mood of remake “Mary Poppins” (1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWf9fP-A-U http://www.teachertube.com/video/scary-mary-poppins-trailer-146433 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNarV_3P4oM http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/22498-recut-movie-trailers-movie-trailer-remix