Tone/Mood
This is the difference between tone and mood. (Describe the difference between tone and mood).
How would you describe the author's voice vs. how does the text makes the audience feel?
This is a traditional story used to explain natural events, cultural beliefs, or human behavior, often involving gods or supernatural beings.
What is a myth?
This type of writing often uses lines, stanzas, and rhythm instead of paragraphs.
What is poetry?
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" is an example of this literary device and figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
This refers to the literal dictionary definition of a word, without any emotional meaning.
What is denotation?
Read the sentence and describe the tone:
“I can’t believe I get to spend my weekend doing homework,” she said, rolling her eyes.
What is sarcasm?
This type of literary work, often described as a long narrative poem, features a heroic figure, a long journey, and supernatural elements, like in The Odyssey.
What is an epic?
This is the name for a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
This rhetorical appeal is used when a speaker or writer tries to convince an audience by appealing to logic or facts.
What is logos?
This text structure is used when an author explains similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
Which word has a negative connotation and thus creates a more negative tone: “slim” or “skinny”?
What is "skinny"?
This character was cursed by Hera to only repeat the last words of others and fell in love with Narcissus.
Who is Echo?
Unlike prose, poetry often relies heavily on this type of language, including metaphors, similes, and personification.
A speech includes emotional stories about families struggling after a disaster in order to persuade the audience. This appeal is being used.
What is pathos?
In this point of view, the narrator uses “I” and is a character in the story.
What is first-person point of view?
Read the passage:
“The thunder rumbled in the distance as the lights flickered and the door creaked open.”
Describe the mood AND which detail supports this (using text evidence).
What is "suspenseful"? (evidence: "lights flickered" and "door creaked open")
This Gorgon had snakes for hair and could turn people to stone with a single look. After being attacked by Poseidon, she was cursed by this goddess.
Who is Medusa? Who is Athena?
This element of poetry refers to the pattern of beats or stresses in a line, which helps create its musical quality.
What is rhythm?
This is when human qualities are given to nonhuman things, such as “The wind whispered through the trees.”
What is personification?
This type of text is written to inform, explain, or give facts rather than tell a story.
What is informational text?
How does an author most effectively create mood in a text?
What is word choice, imagery, and descriptive details? (accept: diction, setting, figurative language)
In the long narrative written by Homer, this Greek hero spends years trying to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, encountering mythical creatures such as the Cyclops Polyphemus, and the Sirens.
Who is Odysseus?
This poetic structure, commonly used in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and many of his plays and sonnets, consists of lines with ten syllables following a pattern of unstressed and stressed beats.
What is iambic pentameter?
A commercial shows a doctor recommending a specific brand of toothpaste. This is an example of ethos because it appeals to this.
What is credibility or trust in the speaker/authority?
This refers to the feeling or idea a word carries beyond its literal meaning and helps create tone in a text.
What is connotation?