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Tone & Mood

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Tone & Mood. STOP!. Tone. When we read we hear the speaker’s voice. It’s the voice that conveys the tone of an author work . Tone is the author’s implied attitude towards its subject. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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An Introduction to Poetry

Tone & MoodToneWhen we read we hear the speakers voice. Its the voice that conveys the tone of an author work.Tone is the authors implied attitude towards its subject.Tone is an abstraction we make from the details of a texts language: the use of meter and rhyme, the inclusion or exclusion of certain details; particular choices of words or sentence pattern, of imagery or figurative language.My love is like a red roseSTOP!whisperedElements of Poetry: ToneAn authors tone is describe by adjectives. For example you might say The author of this novel sounds

cynical, depressed, cheerful, sympathetic, outraged, positive, angry, sarcastic, ironic, solemn, vindictive, intense or excited.Tone is not an action, its an attitude.

Some examples of authors tone

This authors serious tone inspires an atmosphere of tragedy. This leads to a mood of sadness, sympathy, and caring in the reader when reading this passage.

Poets often bare their souls in their poems. This poets grieving tone reveals her deepest feelings about her father and his death, creating an atmosphere of sadness and longing. This inspires a mood of sympathy and caring in the readers.

This authors sarcastic tone inspires a slightly humorous atmosphere in spite of tragedy. This puts the reader in a cynical mood.

DictionAll good writers are keenly aware of diction, their choice of words

In reading a text it is necessary to know what the words mean, but it is equally important to understand what the words imply or suggest.

Denotation is the literal, dictionary meaning of a word.

Connotation is the associations and implications that go beyond a words literal meaning.DictionFor example, with the word BIRD

Denotation: A feathered animal with wings

Connotation: Fragility, vulnerability, sky, freedom.

What about if we used the name of a specific bird? Its denotation would remain essentially the same but how would its connotation change?

Hawk Dove

DictionOther forms of diction include:

Informal diction (personal writing)

Ex. I am going to tell Kathy Im sorry that I forgot to ask her to come to my birthday party.

VS.

Formal diction (academic or literary writing)

Ex. I will inform Kathy that I apologize for forgetting to request her presence at my birthday party.

How does the change in the form of diction change the tone and mood of each sentence?DictionColloquial words conversational language such as: Hey, hiya, watcha, gonna, ya, yall, wanna, doin

Slang words or phrases that are not considered standard in a speakers language but are acceptable in certain social settings.

DictionJargon the special language of a profession or group.

Cacophonous words harsh sounding wordsEx. maggot, detest, disgusted, moan, slime

Euphonious words - pleasant sounding words Ex. butterfly, puppy, luxurious, shimmer, trickle

ImageryWriters take in the world and give us impressions of what they experience through images.

Imagery is language that addresses the senses (sight, smell, taste, touch and sound).

Imagery is not only used to create a mental picture for the reader but to also help convey tone, mood and theme.

ImageryConsider the first stanza of Li Hos poem A Beautiful Girl Combs Her Hair

Awake at dawn shes dreamingby cool silk curtains

What images do these lines convey? How does this affect the tone and mood of the poem?

Figures of SpeechA simile makes an explicit comparison between two things using the words like or as.

For example, A sip of Mrs. Cooks coffee is like a punch in the stomach. This simile suggests that Mrs. Cooks coffee is very potent.

Mrs. Cooks coffee is as strong as the cafeterias coffee is not a simile because the comparison is literal. Mrs. Cooks coffee is compared to something like it, another kind of coffee.

Figures of SpeechA metaphor, like a simile, makes a comparison between two unlike things, but it does so implicitly, without the words like or as.

Mrs. Cooks coffee is a punch in the stomach.

Or, as Macbeth tells us, Life is a brief candle.

Practice: Is it a simile or metaphor?

She is as cute as a kitten.

I am as busy as a bee.

Sea of grief

It broke my heart when my dog died.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what youre going to get.Other Figures of SpeechPun A play on words that relies on a word having more than one meaning or sounding like another word.Ex. Vacuuming sucks; Corduroy pillows are making headlines.

Synecdoche A figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole.Ex. A person in prison is behind bars; Germany invaded Poland.

Metonymy When something closely associated a subject is substituted for it.Ex. Lend me your ears; That was a delicious dish.Other Figures of SpeechPersonification The attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things.Ex. The trees screamed in the raging wind; The mice conspired in the cupboard.

Other Figures of SpeechParadox A statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense.Ex. The pen is mightier than the sword

Oxymoron A condensed form of a paradox in which two contradictory words are used together.Ex. Cold fire; jumbo shrimp

Other Figures of SpeechUnderstatement - deliberately expressing an idea as less important than it actually is either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tactEx. "The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

Hyperbole A figure of speech, exaggeration in order to add emphasis without intending to be literally true.Ex. Teenagers eat everything in the house.

Practice: Is it a pun, synecdoche, metonymy, personification, apostrophe, paradox, oxymoron, understatement or hyperbole?

The temperature rose to 55 degrees today. It was a little warm.

Lend me a hand.

Youre clearly confused.

I just bought a new set of wheels.

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.Any questions?