By the Waters of Babylon

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By the Waters of Babylon

• Mood and Tone

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Mood

• Define, Identify

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Mood

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

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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

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

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Tone

• Define, Identify, Analyze

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Tone

• The authors, writers, or speakers 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.

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Identifying Tonethrough diction, imagery, and
detail

• Using the same passage you chose for mood,
  identify the speakers 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

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Tone Chart
Tone Diction Imagery Details
Powerlessness
Foreboding
Uncertainty