Mood and Atmosphere

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Mood and Atmosphere

• Considering Images

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• MOOD The atmosphere that pervades a literary
  work with the intention of evoking a certain
  emotion or feeling from the audience. In drama,
  mood may be created by sets music as well as
  words in poetry and prose, mood may be created
  by a combination of such elements as setting,
  voice, tone theme.

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Atmosphere

• The same thing!! The atmosphere is the general
  mood of a setting in a literary work

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Setting

• the time and place of a story
• requires description
• this description can contribute to
  mood/atmosphere

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Settings in The Glass Castle

• Find descriptive passages about each place.
• Identify moments in the text which show mood
  (esp. modifiers)
• Write words/phrases that stand out to share with
  the class

• The Desert
• Welch
• NYC