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Setting When and where the story takes place. Setting can have a big effect on mood. Examples: An old haunted castle 200 years ago. A bright field of flowers. A rainy battlefield during WWII.

Plot Events in the story. Plot also affects mood. Examples: A young girl is followed by a strange man. A lover hunts for the most beautiful flower. A man in the woods must fight to survive.

Mood The feeling created in the reader’s mind. Setting, tone, and plot influence mood. Rubric for Close Reading Setting Plot Tone Mood

Mood is the atmosphere created by the author Mood is the atmosphere created by the author. It is your feelings and your emotions about the body of work. 10/3/2013

Mood Words Negative Moods Neutral Moods Positive Moods Gloomy Despairing Dreadful Mournful Desolate Foreboding Haunting Embarrassing Cold Boring Lazy Melancholy Calm Apathetic Triumphant Exciting Celebratory Joyful Silly Peaceful Playful Hopeful Warm

Identifying Mood Look at the setting, plot, and tone. Ask, “How does this make me feel?” Find supporting information.

Tone The narrator’s attitude toward his characters, subject, or readers. Tone is similar to tone of voice. Examples: Serious, sarcastic, grave, lighthearted, cheerful, cynical, confident, worried, frustrated, dreary, cranky, excited

Example of Tone The bright rays of the warm sun cheered us. That big stupid sun is giving me a headache.

Example Tone Words Some examples of words that describe tone. Anxious Appreciative Concerned Cynical Depressed Foreboding Grateful Grave Hopeful Jealous Loving Melencholy Peaceful Pleasant Respectful Sensitive Timid Wise

Tone is not Mood Tone: how the narrator or speaker feels about their subject. Mood: how the reader is supposed to feel when reading the work. Mood Tone Narrator Reader

Compare and Contrast… 1 2 These passages both talk abut the sea. Life's city ways are dark, Men mutter by, the wells Of the great waters moan. O death, O sea, O tide, The waters moan like bells. No light, no mark, The soul goes out alone On seas unknown. 2 The skies are sown with stars tonight, The sea is sown with light, The hollows of the heaving floor Gleam deep with light once more, The racing ebb-tide flashes past And seeks the vacant vast, A wind steals from a world asleep And walks the restless deep. These passages both talk abut the sea. One is very dark and dreary. The other is bright and happy. Tone makes a big difference in the mood.

Review Tone and mood are different but related. Tone describes the narrator's attitude or voice. Mood is how the reader is supposed to feel. Ex: A reader can feel scared for a character even if the narrator is indifferent.

Practice Read the passage. Describe the tone of the narrator or speaker. Explain your answer using evidence from the text.

1 Piping down the valleys wild,   Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child,   And he laughing said to me: ‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’   So I piped with merry cheer. ‘Piper, pipe that song again.’   So I piped: he wept to hear.

Suggested Answer Explanation This speaker's tone is pleasant or happy. I believe this because he is piping with "merry cheer" and "Piping songs of pleasant glee." This shows that he is very happy.

2   Dearest, forgive that with my clumsy touch    I broke and bruised your rose.    I hardly could suppose   It were a thing so fragile that my clutch       Could kill it, thus.

Suggested Answer Explanation This speaker's tone is apologetic or regretful. Explanation I believe this because she says, "Dearest, forgive." This shows that she feels bad about what she did and she wants forgiveness.

3 And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, A highwayman comes riding--                    Riding-- riding-- A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.

Suggested Answer Explanation This speaker's tone is spooky or frightening. Explanation I believe this because she describes the moon as a "ghostly galleon," or a spooky ship.

4 One asked of regret,      And I made reply:    To have held the bird,      And let it fly;    To have seen the star      For a moment nigh,    And lost it      Through a slothful eye;    To have plucked the flower      And cast it by;    To have one only hope--      To die.

Suggested Answer Explanation This speaker's tone is regretful or depressed. Explanation I believe this because he says, "To have one only hope-- / To die." Hoping for death is about as depressing as it gets.

5 When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it; When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene; When Mary and Susan and Emily With their sweet round mouths sing ‘Ha ha he!’

Suggested Answer Explanation This speaker's tone is joyful or cheerful. Explanation I believe this because the speaker says stuff like, “the green woods laugh with the voice of joy.” The speaker chooses to describe the woods as laughing with a voice of joy. That is a very cheerful way to describe the noises of the forest.