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Tone and Mood

Tone and Mood. “It was a dark and stormy night” – Snoopy Is this describing mood or tone, or both?. TONE.

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Tone and Mood

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  1. Tone and Mood “It was a dark and stormy night” – Snoopy Is this describing mood or tone, or both?

  2. TONE • Every author creates a sense of tone through their word choice (diction), sentence structure (syntax), and imagery. Tone is the expression of the author’s attitude towards the subject and/or the audience. Some examples of “tone” words are: Angry, sarcastic, happy, light-hearted, depressed, creepy, nervous, anxious, disgusted, delighted, excited, melancholy, hopeful, etc. Notice all refer to some kind of feeling the author expresses.

  3. Read the following passage. Jot down the descriptive words: • And I started to play. It was so beautiful. I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that at first I didn’t worry how I would sound. So it was a surprise to me when I hit the first wrong note and I realized something didn’t sound quite right. And then I hit another and another followed that. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. I played this strange jumble through two repeats the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end . -Amy Tan , The Joy Luck Club

  4. Tone in media Watch the following trailer. As you watch, consider the feeling expressed by the characters and how the visual portrayal enhances those feelings. Construct a chart to record your observations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-cdIvgBCWY

  5. Tone in media Watch the following trailer. As you watch, consider the feeling expressed by the characters and how the visual portrayal enhances those feelings. Construct a chart to record your observations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eD2UpdhbwA

  6. Musee des Beaux Arts • About suffering they were never wrong,The old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position: how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waitingFor the miraculous birth, there always must beChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skatingOn a pond at the edge of the wood:They never forgotThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its courseAnyhow in a corner, some untidy spotWhere the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horseScratches its innocent behind on a tree. • In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns awayQuite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman mayHave heard the splash, the forsaken cry,But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shoneAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the greenWater, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seenSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

  7. The Fall of Icarus – Pieter Breugel the Elder

  8. The Lady of Shalottby John William Waterhouse (1888)

  9. The Triumph of Death by Pieter Breugel the Elder

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