Watch and Listen  EE&feature=related EE&feature=related  Watching film evokes certain emotions and feelings from the viewer with the images, music, dialogue, etc. In the same way, writing evokes responses from the reader with the choice of words and writing style. Watching film evokes certain emotions and feelings from the viewer with the images, music, dialogue, etc. In the same way, writing evokes responses from the reader with the choice of words and writing style.  The tone and mood of your writing is determined by the words you use, and your writing style. The tone and mood of your writing is determined by the words you use, and your writing style.

 How do you feel?  What is your mood?  Do you think this is how the person who made this film wanted you to feel?

OBJECTIVES: Identify Tone Within Text and Film Identify Mood Within Text And Film

 Is the author’s attitude toward the writing (his characters, the situation) and the readers.  A work of writing can have more than one tone.  An example of tone can be both serious and humorous.  Opinions may be positive or negative.

Watch! What is the TONE?  Watch the video clip.  Choose 3 words to describe the tone.  Amused  Humorous  Pessimistic  Angry  Informal  Accepting  Suspicious  Gloomy  Optimistic  Witty  Serious  Formal  Playful  Cheerful  Ironic  Arrogant  Horror  Light  Miserable  Strong Tone in film

Watch!  Now watch the same video images that have been edited and with different music.  Has the tone changed?  Amused  Humorous  Pessimistic  Angry  Informal  Arrogant  Horror  Light  Miserable  Strong  Serious  Formal  Playful  Cheerful  Ironic  Accepting  Suspicious  Gloomy  Optimistic  Witty

 “And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”  The School by Donald Barthelme What is the tone? What word or words helped you come to your answer? Tone in text

Answer:  The use of adjectives “dead” and “depressing” sets a gloomy tone in the passage. As trees signify life here, their unexpected “death” from an unknown cause gives the above passage an unhappy and pessimistic tone.

 “I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  From The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost What is the tone? What word or words helped you come to your answer?

Answer:  Frost tells us about his past with a “sigh” the gives the above lines an unhappy tone. This tone convinces us into thinking that Frost is telling us sullenly of a choice in the past about which he was not happy or contented in the present.

 The general atmosphere created by the author’s words.  It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words. It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation.

The setting The use of descriptive words The punctuation used The sound of words All these things work together to create the mood of a text.

Positive: Hopeful Cheerful Joyous Playful Peaceful Negative:  Gloomy  Violent  Tense  Heartbreaking  Painful

Mood in Images What mood does this image create?

 “The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”  What is the mood and how do you know? Charles Dickens creates a calm and peaceful mood in his novel “Pickwick Papers” The description of this scene causes a serene and nonviolent mood to the readers by using visual imagery. Mood in text

“There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible…” What is the mood and how do you know? Emily Bronte in “Wuthering Heights” creates a lonely and depressing mood. This mood is created by using the words “misty,” “darkness,” and “never visible.”

 “Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf.”  What is the mood and how do you know? This description creates a calm and peaceful mood using terms such as “soothingly” and “sweet.”

 Tone = Attitude toward reader/audience, subject, and/or characters  Mood = Environment

Tone and Mood Watch out! Tone and mood are similar!  REMEMBER Tone is the author’s attitude toward his/her characters, the subject, and the reader.  A work of writing CAN have more than one tone.  Example of tone could be both serious and humorous.  Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details.