Mood and Tone

Mood is...

• How the characters are doing in a book.

• The emotional feeling a reader gets after reading a piece of text.

• How the writer feels about a piece of work.

• How much money the author makes on a book.

Tone is...

• The way the reader feels after reading a piece of text.

• How the book smells.

• The main conflict in a story.

• The way the author feels about the subject or topic they are writing about.

How are tone and mood related?

• They are not related.

• Mood is all the words the author writes and it makes us feel stuff and then the reader sets a tone.

• Tone creates the mood the reader is feeling through the author's word choice.

• Mood creates the tone through how the reader is feeling.

You can identify the mood and tone of a picture, true or false?

• True

• False

What do you use to identify the tone of a piece of literature?

• I think about how I feel when I look at something or read something.

• I make something up.

• I look at the actions of the characters.

• I look at the author's word choice and think about why they picked those words.

What do you use to identify the tone of a picture?

• I look at the colors used in the picture.

• I look at the details, such as the different things included in the picture

• I look at the characters in the picture and what they are doing.

• I can look at all of those things to identify the tone.

Spring

by H. G. Adams

A bursting into greenness; A waking as from sleep; A twitter and a warble That make the pulses leap: A watching, as in childhood, For the flowers that, one by one, Open their golden petals To woo the fitful sun. A gust, a flash, a gurgle, A wish to shout and sing, As, filled with hope and gladness, We hail the vernal Spring.

QUESTION: WHAT IS THE MOOD OF THIS PASSAGE?

• Angry (Denotation: Upset and mad)

• Bright (Denotation: Upbeat and positive)

• Dark (Denotation: Depressing and grim)

• Goofy (Denotation: Silly and playful)

The Scarecrow

by Annie Stone

 Full Text

Here is the scarecrow, see him stand Upon the newly planted land; A figure rugged and forlorn, A silent watcher of the corn.

His dangling legs, his arms spread wide, A lone man of the countryside; Uncouth, the butt of pen and tongue, Unheralded, unsought, unsung

QUESTION: WHAT IS THE TONE OF THIS POEM?

• Lonely

  (Denotation: deserted and solitary)

• Positive (Denotation: upbeat and feeling good about the future)

• Grim

  (Denotation: dark, depressing and maybe something bad will happen)

• Happy

  (Denotation: Feeling good and merry about what is happening)

Spring

by H. G. Adams

A bursting into greenness; A waking as from sleep; A twitter and a warble That make the pulses leap: A watching, as in childhood, For the flowers that, one by one, Open their golden petals To woo the fitful sun. A gust, a flash, a gurgle, A wish to shout and sing, As, filled with hope and gladness, We hail the vernal Spring.

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE MOOD OF THIS TEXT IS?

The Scarecrow

by Annie Stone

 Full Text

Here is the scarecrow, see him stand Upon the newly planted land; A figure rugged and forlorn, A silent watcher of the corn.

His dangling legs, his arms spread wide, A lone man of the countryside; Uncouth, the butt of pen and tongue, Unheralded, unsought, unsung

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE TONE OF THIS TEXT IS?