{"id":21643,"date":"2016-02-16T19:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=21643"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:18:27","slug":"mood-and-tone-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/mood-and-tone-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mood and Tone in Literature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Mood and Tone in Literature\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_tq-LJSaGLkM\"><div id=\"lyte_tq-LJSaGLkM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Ftq-LJSaGLkM%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Mood and Tone in Literature<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tq-LJSaGLkM\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Ftq-LJSaGLkM%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Mood and Tone in Literature\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>Hi, and welcome to this video lesson on textual style, tone and mood!<\/p>\n<p>Authors use language and word choice to convey a certain style, tone, and mood in a piece of literature. When an author writes, he or she uses a style appropriate to the purpose of the text, but also uses language in a way that sets him or her apart.<\/p>\n<p>Tone is the author\u2019s attitude toward the subject and mood is the feeling the work invokes in the reader. Authors use their own personal style, their attitude toward the subject, and the mood they create to help craft their stories.<\/p>\n<p>Style, tone, and mood all contribute to the effect of a text. As readers, we know there is a difference between a serious or humorous piece.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at some classic examples of different tones and style:<\/p>\n<div class=\"transcriptcallout\" style=\"text-align: left; margin-bottom: 1.5em;\">Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,<br \/>\nOver many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,<br \/>\nWhile I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,<br \/>\nAs of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8216;Tis some visitor,&#8221; I muttered, &#8220;tapping at my chamber door &#8211;<br \/>\nOnly this, and nothing more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0em; text-align: right;\"><em>The Raven<\/em> &#8211; Edgar Allen Poe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"transcriptcallout\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Pleasant is a rainy winter&#8217;s day, within doors!<br \/>\nThe best study for such a day, or the best amusement,<br \/>\n\u2014call it which you will,\u2014is a book of travels, describing<br \/>\nscenes the most unlike that sombre one, which is mistily<br \/>\npresented through the windows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0em; text-align: right;\"><em>Beneath the Umbrella<\/em> &#8211; Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDo you feel different moods in those pieces? You should, the style and tones the writers are putting into their work are very different from one another.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that helps. Until next time, happy studying!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-21643","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_category-reading-comprehension-videos","6":"page_type-video","7":"page_domain-english"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250003,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21643\/revisions\/250003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}