Mood

1. Mood What is mood? How do authors create mood?

2. mood • The mood is the feeling or atmosphere of a piece. • The mood can be many different things. • Some examples included: • A feeling of love. • A feeling of doom. • A feeling of fear. • A feeling of pride. • An atmosphere of chaos.

3. How to achieve mood • choice of words, • symbolic language, • structure of the sentences, • the length of each poetic line, the punctuation marks chosen.

4. Dialect • A regional way of speaking that is different from the norm. For example, A southerner might say Ya'll while a New Yorker might say Youz Guys. The entire piece can be altered by dialect. If you want to convey a sense of innocence, you might choose the casual dialect of someone who has not had much schooling.

5. Sensory and figurative language • Sensory language is language that appeals to the senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, smelling). • Figurative Language are words used for descriptive effect that express some truth behind their literal meaning (similes, metaphors, personification)

6. Line length • The length of sentences and stanzas in poems. Again, you can convey mood and meaning by varying your line length, just as you can by varying your sentence structure.

7. Punctuation • The use of standard marks and signs in writing and printing to separate words into sentences, clauses, and phrases in order to clarify meaning. You can create confusion or perhaps insecurity by including no punctuation.