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Title: Mood in Literature


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Mood in Literature
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MOOD
  • MOOD is the overall feelings or emotions that are
    created IN THE READER.
  • Authors move their readers moods through their
    choice of words and level of detail.

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Moods can be positive or negative
  • Hopeful
  • Cheerful
  • Joyous
  • Playful
  • Peaceful
  • Gloomy
  • Violent
  • Tense
  • Heartbroken
  • Painful

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How does a writer create mood?
  • The mood colors the whole piece of literature and
    creates a feeling in the reader.
  • The length of sentences, the words that are
    chosen, the punctuation used and the sound of the
    words all work to create a mood.
  • Descriptive details
  • Setting
  • Figurative language
  • Sound and rhythm

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We also see mood in images --
  • What mood does this image create?

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What mood does this image create?
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What mood does this image create?
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What mood does this image create?
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MOOD EXAMPLE 
  • During the holidays, my mother's house glittered
    with decorations and hummed with preparations. We
    ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her
    wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt
    warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols
    and even singing along sometimes. We would tease
    each other about our terrible voices and then
    sing even louder.
  • Mood Content, happy.
  • How do we know? Words like "warm, excited,
    glittered are used by the author.

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MOOD EXAMPLE
  • After New Year's the time came to put all the
    decorations away and settle in for the long, cold
    winter. The house seemed to sigh as we boxed up
    its finery. The tree was dry and brittle, and now
    waited forlornly by the side of the road to be
    picked up.
  • Mood Dreary, depressed.
  • How do we know? "cold, sigh, brittle, forlornly"

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More MOOD Words
  • Cheerful
  • Relieved
  • Gloomy
  • Bleak
  • Uncertain
  • Bittersweet
  • Relaxed
  • Lazy
  • Hopeless
  • Tense
  • Furious
  • Disappointed
  • Dreamy, foggy
  • Content
  • Satisfied
  • Angry
  • Motivated
  • Inspired
  • Confident
  • Eerie

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Mood A Gift in His Shoes
  • Donovan and Larry were early for baseball
    practice. They decided to run up and down the
    bleachers to exercise before the rest of the team
    arrived.
  • Larry was first to the top. He whispered to
    Donovan, Look over there. He pointed to a man
    sleeping on the highest, narrow bench of the
    bleachers. His pants and shirt were faded, worn,
    and too large for his thin frame. One big toe
    stuck out of a huge hole in his sock. His
    scraped-up shoes sat a few feet away.
  • Donovan whispered, We should help him out.
    Lets hide something good in his shoes. Then,
    when he wakes up, he will have a nice surprise.

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Mood A Gift in His Shoes
  • How would you describe the mood of this passage?
  • Angry
  • Detached
  • Sympathetic
  • Evidence?

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The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Read and listen to the story The Tell-Tale
    Heart by Edgar Allen Poe.
  • Pay attention to the sheet from Miss Shipman and
    feel free to fill it out while listening to the
    story.
  • Different parts of the story can have different
    types of mood.
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