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Literary Device: Mood
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Literary Device: Mood
So what is the difference between tone and mood?
Definition
Examples of Mood in Film
Be aware that tone and mood are very similar and are likely to be confused with each other. Tone is the attitude to word a subject. Mood is the atmosphere of a piece of writing; it's the emotions a selection arouses in a reader.
"The literary device 'mood' refers to a definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work. It refers to the mental and emotional disposition of the author toward the subject, which in turn lends a particular character of atmosphere to the work. The final mood achieved thus is instrumental in evoking specific appropriate responses from the reader"
-Literary.net
Common Mood Descriptors:
Light-hearted Tense
Playful Gloomy
Tender Violent
Enlightened Insidious
Optimistic Pessimistic
Liberating Confining
Warm Cold
Hopeful Hopeless
Nostalgic Haunting
Peaceful Nightmarish
Welcoming Hostile
Harmonious Suspenseful
Trustful Foreboding
Vivacious Painful
Confident Threatening
Idyllic Desolate
Sympathetic Merciless
Joyous Terrifying
Dignified Barren
Ecstatic Vengeful
Empowered Heartbroken
Inclusive Lonely
Mood in Literature
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.) But my mom believed I required treatment, so she took me to see my Regular Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a paralyzing and totally clinical depression, and that therefore my meds should be adjusted and also I should attend a weekly Support Group.
John Green's The Fault in Our Stars