Words Matter MOOD MOOD MOOD MOOD MOOD MOOD Creates A feeling in the reader a response An emotional connection between STORY and Readerwhich invests the reader more HOW TO DO MOOD RIGHT ID: 407217
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Creating Mood
Words Matter Slide2Slide3Slide4
MOOD MOOD MOOD MOOD MOOD
MOOD Creates
:
A feeling in the reader; a response
An emotional connection between STORY and Reader—which “invests” the reader moreSlide5
HOW TO DO MOOD RIGHT
A good writer creates MOOD through:
Setting
Diction (word choice)
Theme
ToneSlide6
MOOD through SETTING:
Charles Dickens creates a
calm and peaceful mood
in his novel
Pickwick Papers
:
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.
”Slide7
MOOD through SETTING #2
Emily
Bronte in
Wuthering Heights
creates two contrasting moods
in
two neighboring houses: Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross
Grange. A
depressing mood
is created whenever Wuthering Heights is described. For
example:
“
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…”Slide8
On the contrary, the description of
Thrushcross
Grange creates a
calm and peaceful mood
:
“
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.”Slide9
Mood through DICTION
The following lines from Jonathon Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travel” is one of the great mood examples created using diction:
“
And being no stranger to the art of war, I
gave
him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets,
carabines
, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea-
fights: ships sunk with a thousand men; 20,000 killed on each side; dying groans, limbs flying…”
WHAT DO YOU FEEL?Slide10
And the answer…
The writer wanted us
to feel DISGUST for war.
He used harsh, jarring
w
ords and short
u
n-melodious phrases
t
o bring about this
reaction in us, as readers