Tone and Mood How does this feel?

What’s the difference? O Fatima, please be quiet, we’re trying to conduct the lesson for the other students. O Fatima, shut up! Would you be quiet for two seconds?

Tone vs. Mood O Tone and mood are NOT the same thing… O …but the difference is subtle (not huge)

Tone O Tone is the author’s attitude towards either the subject matter in the text or the audience O Author’s feelings O Tone can be: formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, arrogant, sarcastic, or many other possible attitudes

What’s the tone? Write it down! How do you know? O Mr. Spatz said, "Well, Mister Jenkins, it looks as if you are late again." O Our eyes met for a moment, and I then looked down toward my ten-dollar pleather shoes, as if to say, yes, I am tardy again, and I apologize for my stupidity and pray for compassion and understanding on your part, oh exalted manager of Peachy Burroughs Terrace, Fine Dining at the P.B. Country Club.

Possible answers: O The author’s tone toward Mr. Spatz is sarcastic. The reader can tell because the author calls Mr. Spatz his “exalted manager” even though he doesn’t really mean it. O The tone toward his job is distain because he doesn’t care about being late – he has an attitude of “I’m late again, so sue me” in his sarcastic response.

What’s the tone? How do you know? Write it down! O When leaders get into trouble these days, they often complain that they have too little power to be effective. Yet as debate rages about the NFL's handling of player discipline, the problem for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is just the opposite: He seems to have too much power.

Mood O Mood is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader O Audience’s feelings O Uses setting, word choice

What is the mood? O I smiled to myself as I remembered the game that made me a star ten years ago…The rain was pouring as I stepped out onto the football field. It was the last game of the season, and we had yet to lose a game. Today might be different. We were playing the state champions, and they were undefeated. I took a deep breath and fastened my helmet. The game was about to begin. Write down 2-3 words or phrases or sentences that help create a feeling in you

What’s the mood? Write down the mood and 2-3 words that determine the mood. O It seemed to him as if the silence, the cold, the solitude, the winter death of these mountains were taking possession of him, were going to stop and to freeze his blood, to make his limbs grow stiff and to turn him into a motionless and frozen object, and he set off running, fleeing toward his dwelling. The old man, he thought, would have returned during his absence. He had taken another road; he would, no doubt, be sitting before the fire, with a dead chamois at his feet. He soon came in sight of the inn, but no smoke rose from it.