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v=_hGhtmzTOEE&feature=related
Watching film evokes certain emotions and feelings from the viewer with the images, music, dialogue, etc. In the same way, writing evokes responses from the reader with the choice of words and writing style.
The tone and mood of your writing is determined by the words you use, and your writing style.
How do you feel?
What is your mood?
Do you think this is how the person who made this film wanted you to feel?
TONE AND MOOD OBJECTIVES:• Identify Tone Within Text
and Film• Identify Mood Within Text
And Film
Is the author’s attitude toward the
writing (his characters, the situation)
and the readers.
A work of writing can have more than one
tone.
An example of tone can be both serious
and humorous. Opinions may be positive or negative.
TONE
Watch!What is the TONE?
Watch the video clip.
Choose 3 words to describe the tone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWf9fP-A-U Amused Humorous Pessimistic Angry Informal
Accepting
Suspicious
Gloomy Optimisti
c Witty
Serious Formal Playful Cheerful Ironic
Arrogant
Horror Light Miserab
le Strong
Tone in film
Watch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
Now watch the same video images that have been edited and with different music.
Has the tone changed?
Amused Humorous Pessimistic Angry Informal
Arrogant
Horror Light Miserab
le Strong
Serious Formal Playful Cheerful Ironic
Accepting
Suspicious
Gloomy Optimisti
c Witty
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I
don’t know why they died, they just died. Something
wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we
got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained
about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had
his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these
thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little
brown sticks, it was depressing.” The School by Donald Barthelme
What is the tone?What word or words helped you come to your answer?
Tone in text
Answer: The use of adjectives “dead” and
“depressing” sets a gloomy tone
in the passage. As trees signify
life here, their unexpected
“death” from an unknown cause
gives the above passage an
unhappy and pessimistic tone.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference. From The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
What is the tone?What word or words helped you come to your answer?
Answer:
Frost tells us about his past with a
“sigh” the gives the above lines an
unhappy tone. This tone convinces
us into thinking that Frost is telling
us sullenly of a choice in the past
about which he was not happy or
contented in the present.
The general atmosphere created by
the author’s words.
It is the feeling the reader gets
from reading those words. It may
be the same, or it may change
from situation to situation.
MOOD
HOW IS MOOD CREATED?
• The setting• The use of descriptive words• The punctuation used• The sound of words
All these things work together to create the mood of a text.
MOODS CAN BE POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE
Positive: Hopeful Cheerful Joyous Playful Peaceful
Negative:GloomyViolentTenseHeartbreakin
gPainful
Mood in ImagesWhat mood does this image
create?
violent peaceful playful
What mood does this image create?
gloomy painful cheerful
What mood does this image create?
tension peacefulness
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”
What is the mood and how do you know?
Charles Dickens creates a calm and peaceful mood in his novel “Pickwick Papers”
The description of this scene causes a serene and nonviolent mood to the readers by using visual imagery.
Mood in text
“There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in
misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house,
far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and
those at Wuthering Heights were never visible…”
What is the mood and how do you know?
Emily Bronte in “Wuthering Heights”
creates a lonely and depressing mood.
This mood is created by using the words
“misty,” “darkness,” and “never
visible.”
“Gimmerton chapel bells were still ringing; and the
full, mellow flow of the beck in the valley came
soothingly on the ear. It was a sweet substitute for
the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage,
which drowned that music about the Grange when
the trees were in leaf.”
What is the mood and how do you know?
This description creates a calm and
peaceful mood using terms such as
“soothingly” and “sweet.”
Tone = Attitude toward
reader/audience,
subject,
and/or characters
Mood = Environment
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
Tone and MoodWatch out! Tone and mood are similar! REMEMBER Tone is the author’s
attitude toward his/her characters, the subject, and the reader.
A work of writing CAN have more than one tone.
Example of tone could be both serious and humorous.
Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details.