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Tone vs. Mood

10/3/2013 Created by: Shenica Bridges-Mathieu

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Setting

When and

where the story takes place.Setting can have a big effect on mood.

Examples:An old haunted castle 200 years ago.

A bright field of flowers.

A rainy battlefield during WWII.

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Plot

Events

in the story.Plot also affects mood.

Examples:A young girl is followed by a strange man.

A lover hunts for the most beautiful flower.

A man in the woods must fight to survive.

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Mood

The feeling created in the reader’s mind.

Setting, tone, and plot influence mood.

Setting

Plot

Tone

Mood

Rubric for Close Reading

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Mood is the atmosphere created by the author. It is your feelings and your emotions about the body of work.

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Negative Moods

Neutral

Moods

Positive Moods

Gloomy

Despairing

Dreadful

Mournful

Desolate

Foreboding

Haunting

Embarrassing

Cold

Boring

Lazy

Melancholy

Calm

Apathetic

Triumphant

Exciting

Celebratory

Joyful

SillyPeacefulPlayfulHopefulWarm

Mood

Words

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Identifying

Mood

Look at the setting, plot, and tone.Ask, “How does this make me feel?”Find supporting information.

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Tone

The

narrator’s attitude toward his characters, subject, or readers.Tone is similar to tone of voice

.Examples:Serious, sarcastic, grave, lighthearted, cheerful, cynical, confident, worried, frustrated, dreary, cranky, excited

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Example of Tone

The bright rays of the warm sun cheered us.

That big stupid sun is giving me a headache.

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Example

Tone

Words

Some examples of words that describe

tone

.

Anxious

Appreciative

Concerned

Cynical

Depressed

Foreboding

Grateful

Grave

Hopeful

Jealous

Loving

Melencholy

Peaceful

Pleasant

Respectful

Sensitive

TimidWise

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Tone

is not

Mood

Tone

:

how the narrator or speaker feels about their subject.

Mood

:

how the reader is supposed to feel when reading the work.

Tone

Narrator

Mood

Reader

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Compare

and Contrast…

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Life's city ways are dark,

Men mutter by, the wells

Of the great waters moan.

O death, O sea, O tide,

The waters moan like bells.

No light, no mark,

The soul goes out alone

On seas unknown.

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The skies are sown with stars tonight,

The sea is sown with light,

The hollows of the heaving floor

Gleam deep with light once more,

The racing ebb-tide flashes past

And seeks the vacant vast,

A wind steals from a world asleep

And walks the restless deep.

These passages both talk abut the sea.

One is very dark and dreary.

The other is bright and happy.Tone makes a big difference in the mood.

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Review

Tone

and

mood

are different but related.

Tone

describes the narrator's attitude or voice.

Mood

is how the reader is supposed to feel.

Ex:

A reader can feel scared for a character even if the narrator is indifferent.

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Practice

Read the passage.

Describe the

tone of the narrator or speaker.

Explain your answer using evidence from the text.

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Piping down the valleys wild,

  Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,

  And he laughing said to me:‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!

’

  So I piped with merry cheer.

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Piper, pipe that song again.

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  So I piped: he wept to hear.

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Suggested

Answer

This speaker's tone is pleasant or happy.

Explanation

I believe this because he is piping with "merry cheer" and "Piping songs of pleasant glee." This shows that he is very happy.

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2

  Dearest, forgive that with my clumsy touch

   I broke and bruised your rose.   I hardly could suppose

  It were a thing so fragile that my clutch      Could kill it, thus.

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Suggested

Answer

This speaker's tone is apologetic or regretful.

Explanation

I believe this because she says, "Dearest, forgive." This shows that she feels bad about what she did and she wants forgiveness.

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And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,

When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

A highwayman comes riding--                   Riding-- riding--A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.

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Suggested

Answer

This speaker's tone is spooky or frightening.

Explanation

I believe this because she describes the moon as a "ghostly galleon," or a spooky ship.

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One asked of regret,     And I made reply:   To have held the bird,

     And let it fly;   To have seen the star     For a moment nigh,

   And lost it

     Through a slothful eye;

   To have plucked the flower

     And cast it by;

   To have one only hope--

     To die.

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Suggested

Answer

This speaker's tone is regretful or depressed.

Explanation

I believe this because he says, "To have one only hope-- / To die." Hoping for death is about as depressing as it gets.

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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,

And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;When the air does laugh with our merry wit,

And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;When the meadows laugh with lively green,

And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;

When Mary and Susan and Emily

With their sweet round mouths sing

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Ha ha he!

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Suggested

Answer

This speaker's tone is joyful or cheerful.

Explanation

I believe this because the speaker says stuff like,

“

the green woods laugh with the voice of joy.

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The speaker chooses to describe the woods as laughing with a voice of joy. That is a very cheerful way to describe the noises of the forest.