Mood and Tone in Literature

Mood and Tone

Mood vs. Tone

What is the difference?

Tone

The AUTHOR'S attitude toward the subject, characters or audience.

Tone influences the mood of the story

Tone Examples

• Cynical

• Approving

• Sympathetic

• Sarcastic

• Objective

How to Find Tone

Tone is not stated directly. You must read between the lines to see what the author's attitude on the subject is. Tone can be revealed through:

• Dialogue between Characters
• Desriptions
• Author's Diction/Word Choice

Mood

Mood is the emotion that the READERS feel while reading about the subject.

Mood Examples

Cheerful

Romantic

Frightening

Suspenseful

Comical

Multiple Choice

What is determined by the author's word choice about a topic?

• Mood

• Tone

Multiple Choice

What is determined by the reader's reaction to reading a text?

• Mood

• Tone

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Multiple Choice

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
"Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!"

• Annoying
• Excited
• Calm
• Scary

Multiple Choice

A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the reader

• humorous
• matter of fact
• sympathetic
• mood

Multiple Choice

If a passages tone is playful, the author's attitude is...

• full of amusement, lighthearted.
• serious, non humorous.
• haunting, spooky.
• uncaring.

Multiple Choice

What is MOOD?

• How a reader feels when reading a story
• An action word
• A person, place or thing
• The same thing as tone

Multiple Choice

_{What is TONE?}

• A person, place or thing
• Action words
• The author's attitude towards something
• The setting of a story