Literary elements: The City of Ember.

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Literary elements: The City of Ember

Learning Target: Understanding how mood is created in a story.

Mood Mood is the overall atmosphere or feeling of a story. Happiness, sadness, terror, tranquility – mood can be any strong feeling or emotion the author creates, often by using descriptive details.

Read the following passage on page She began to tremble, and she felt the sinking and dissolving inside her that meant she was going to cry. Her legs gave way like wet paper and she slid down until she was sitting on the street, with her head on her knees. Trembling, her mind a wordless whirl of dread, she waited. What mood is set by the passage? What words in this passage created the mood?