1. MOOD AND TONE

2. Mood—the feeling you get when reading a piece of text

3. Word choice
Setting
characters

4. Suspenseful
Eerie
Relaxing
Uplifting
Hopeful
Joyous
Foreboding
Nostalgic
Sentimental
Determined
Contemplative
Calm
irate
Gloomy
ominous
Violent
Haunting
Hopeless
Sympathetic
Thankful
Thoughtful
Warm
Welcoming
Silly
dark
Playful
Peaceful
Depressed
Dreary
Apprehensive
Anxious
Indifferent
Annoyed
Tense
Terrifying
threatening

5. The wind howled like a wolf, the thunder rolled, and the lightning drew zigzag lines across the sky. With the sights and sounds of the thunderstorm cloaking his room, Charlie awoke from his night’s sleep. As he peeked out from under the covers, a dark, shifting shadow appeared on the wall of his room.

6. Tone—an author’s attitude towards a subject
Tone—an author’s attitude towards a subject **How an author says something

7. Forceful
Sarcastic
Didactic
Hostile
Impatient
Direct
Humorous
Admiring
Adoring
Casual
Formal
Playful
serious
Bitter
Condescending
Positive
Negative
Proud
Reflective
Encouraging
Friendly
Disrespectful
Mocking
skeptical
Derogatory
Pensive
Straight-forward
Suspicious
Threatening
Grave
Uneasy
Uncertain
frantic

8. “But I feel peaceful. Your success in the ring this morning was, to a small degree, my success. Your future is assured. You will live, secure and safe, Wilbur. Nothing can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall. Christmas will come, and the snows of winter. You will live to enjoy the beauty of the frozen world, for you mean a great deal to Zuckerman and he will not harm you, ever. Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy, Wilbur—this lovely world, these precious days…”