2. Setting When your focus is setting, look for words that tell about:
Time of day, day of week, month, or season.
Specific dates or historical details
Place names, such as city, state, or country
Physical surroundings, such as weather, buildings, and landscape

3. Setting, Mood, and Tone The setting can create a mood.
Mood is the atmosphere or feelings created by a literary work.
They can be positive or negative.
Writers also use setting to create tone.
Tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject or character.

4. Setting and Characters
The setting helps the reader better understand the characters.
Characters interact with the setting to show and tell the story.
Setting helps the reader share what the characters see, hear, smell, and touch.

5. Mood
Feeling a text arouses and creates in the reader (such as happiness, anger, sadness, depression, joy, etc.). Attitude of the reader toward the subject matter he/she is reading.

6. Imagery
Use of words to create pictures in the reader’s mind using sensory detail. The reader can actually experience the sensation through his or her imagination.

7. Suspense
Makes the reader feel tense about the outcome of events. Makes the reader wonder, “What will happen next?”