Mood in Stories

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What is the "mood" of a story?

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Emotions audience feels from a given passage.

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Does "mood" focus on the audience or the narrator?

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Narrator

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Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.

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words

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"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106).
What is the mood of the passage?

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suspenseful

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What would Wendell's mood be on his birthday?

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Excited

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What is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text?

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mood

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Which of the following does NOT create mood in a story? Options: Setting Description, Imagery, Imagination, Character Speech/Feeling

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Imagination

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What is the mood?
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

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relaxed

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What is the mood?
True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad?  Options: mellow, funny, frantic, chill

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frantic

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What is the mood?
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.

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no-nonsense