Mood and Tone as Literary Devices

How does each song make you feel?

Mood: the general atmosphere created by the author’s words. It is the reader’s emotional response to the text.

Tone: the author’s attitude toward the writing and subject matter

How do mood and tone in music compare to mood and tone in literature?

How do mood and tone in music compare to mood and tone in literature?

Angry

Energetic

Tranquil

Identification of Mood and Tone

• Key words are used to identify tone and mood• Mood and Tone are often reflected by the

same keywords• Tone is responsible for Mood

Tone?

He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound.

Paranoid

He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound.

Mood?

He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound.

Nervous and Fearful

He furtively glanced behind him, for fear of his imagined pursuers, then hurriedly walked on, jumping at the slightest sound.

Tone?

Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans.

Gleeful

Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans.

Mood?

Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans.

Energetic and Joyous

Bouncing into the room, she lit up the vicinity with a joyous glow on her face as she told about her fiancé and their wedding plans.

Annabel Lee

Mood?Tone?

MournfulFor the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and by bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Painful and HauntingFor the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;And so, all the night-tide I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and by bride,In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Lets Act!

Homework

• Read “The Tell Tale Heart” and write a response that identifies the mood and tone. Give examples of word choice that create the tone and mood.

Further Examples of mood and tone

• Mood and tone explained using movie trailers