"What is the Difference Between Tone and Mood?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- How do tone and mood differ in literature? What are some examples of mood vs tone in literature? In this short lesson, English Instructor Marcos Norris answers these questions using examples from Dracula and Interview with a Vampire. The video is a collaboration between Dr. Norris and English Instructor Lucia Stone and is designed to help high school and college English students make meaningful arguments about the literature they read.
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Timestamps
0:00 Definitions of Mood and Tone
1:43 Example #1 Dracula
3:55 Example #2 Interview with a Vampire
View the full transcript and accompanying lesson here:
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Great video! The examples provided make these concepts easy for students to understand.
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Thank you. Very clear explanation and great examples.
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Examples were varied and illustrative!
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I have questions: What is a subject in this context?
"As in the opening (of Bram Stokers Dracula), the mood continues to be shown with sight and taste, with the senses directed toward an unfamiliar scene-and the *subject* of the novel. To foreshadow the horror to come, the mood is punctuated with the narrator's attitude about that *subject*."
Are you talking about the subject of the novel as a whole? or just the scene? and what exactly is the subject?
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I'm assuming it means central idea or theme.
Thanks for the question, F Scott (and great name)! The subject here may be a little ambiguous, but we suspect that Prof. Norris meant Dracula himself. The narrator knows what (or who) is soon to arrive in the plot, and the mood developed in these early moments is preparing us for how we should view him.