What Feeling Lies Within: Discovering Mood and Tone

1. One way of understanding the tone of the selection is through character analysis.

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2. Most texts explicitly suggest the mood of a story

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3. In a story, a reader may identify both positive and negative tones.

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4. Though mood is language dependent on writer’s word choice, it remains audience-oriented.

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5. Tone is uniform and invariable over the course of character development.

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