By the Waters of Babylon Mood and Tone

Mood Define, Identify

Mood �The atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work. �The emotional response of the reader to the text.

Identifying Mood �Find a passage in the story that has a mood that is menacing or foreboding and highlight the passage in your copy of the story. �Identify words and images in the passage that help create a mood that is menacing or foreboding. In the passage, circle the diction and put a box around the imagery. �Copy the chart and fill in the words from your passage

Mood Chart Diction (word choice) Imagery (images that appeal to the senses) EX: afraid, afraid “it gripped my raft with its hands”

Tone Define, Identify, Analyze

Tone �The author’s, writer’s, or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience. �Conveyed primarily through the choice of diction, imagery, details, figures of speech, and syntax. �For this purpose, we will refer to the “speaker” who is John.

Identifying Tone through diction, imagery, and detail �Using the same passage you chose for mood, identify the speaker’s tone of powerlessness, foreboding, or uncertainty �Identify and underline diction, imagery, and detail (information about the story in the text) in the passage that supports the tone. �Copy the chart and fill in

Tone Chart Tone Powerlessness Foreboding Uncertainty Diction Imagery Details