Mood is the feeling the reader gets from reading a piece of literature. If it is properly made it can be felt through the main character or the text. Many literary devices can aid the development of mood in a passage. In “Denn Die Todten Reiten Schnell,” Stroker uses techniques of diction, types of imagery, and elements of narrative stance to create a dominant impression of fear.
The author selects techniques of diction such as connotation, repetition, and onomatopoeia, to establish the fear is the overall excerpt. He manipulates connotation to enhance the mood. As the character is driven about the midnight landscape by the mysterious coachman, he notices the “frowning rocks” hanging over the road, a “ghostly flicker” of blue light which he cannot explain and off in the distance the “long agonized wailing” of dogs. The word “frowning” allows us to see that this is no happy setting, even the rock that cannot feel is frowning and not smiling. The author uses the word ghostly to describe the flicker of light. Light usually portrays a saving or some sign of hope. By using ghostly as a descriptive word, he makes it seem supernatural or like it’s faintly there. If he wanted this to be a sign of hope he could have worded it a flickering light, but he did not causing the character to feel fright and no hope. The utilization of repetition by Stoker applies reinforcement to the atmosphere. Throughout the excerpt the narrator continues intensifying the effects by also repeating phrases such as “another and another.” By repeating these words the reader is being reminded of the alien emotions and surroundings of such a strange place. The use of intensifying repetition strengthens the negative connotation words following directly before or afte...
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...entative involved participant to contribute to the mood. He is attentive to his surroundings claiming that his “eyes deceiv[e] [him] straining through the darkness” as he “finds himself face to face with such horrors.” The main character establishes a fearful confused tone in order to magnify the ambiance. The main character, still on his journey to Dracula’s castle, chooses to describe his feelings as “strangely” meaning the ordinary is no longer sensed.
Words surround us each day and can describe so many aspects of our life. Many people say a picture is worth a thousand words, but no one bothers to say how much a word is worth. If they used words like Bram Stoker does, they’d be able to let people sense and feel what they are sensing and feeling. If a picture could describe a moment with so much depth then why can memories only be told through words and feelings.
Mood is how the audience feels about a piece of literature. This differs from tone because tone is the author’s mood about a piece of literature. Suspense and mood are often closely connected because how you feel about a text can help create suspense. If you feel tense or nervous about something that will add to the suspense already there; however, if you feel devastated or depressed about something, it may not add the same amount of suspense as it could’ve if it made you feel tense or nervous. An example of mood in Cujo is when Stephen King wrote, “She saw the dog’s tail and the top of its broad back over the hood of the Pinto. It was going around to Tad’s side of the car -- And Tad’s window wasn’t shut.” The mood of this piece of text evidence is nervous and maybe a little bit scared of what will happen to Tad. The mood in this part of the excerpt adds to the suspense because the suspense of this excerpt is already making you feel anxious, and the mood makes the suspense stronger. Another example of mood in Cujo is when Donna first heard Cujo growl. It had seemed directionless to her. It was nowhere and everywhere at the same time. She finally figured out that it came from the garage. The mood here would be nightmarish and a little nervous. This is because the reader would read the paragraph and think that it was something out of a nightmare, and they would be nervous for Donna because they wouldn’t want her getting hurt. The mood
Every story, every book, every legend, every belief and every poem have a reason and a background that creates them. Some might be based on historical events, some might be based on every culture´s beliefs, and some others might be based on personal experiences of the authors. When a person writes a literary piece, that person is looking for a way to express her opinion or her feelings about a certain situation. A good example is the poem “Southern Mansion” by Arna Bonptems. The main intention of “Southern Mansion” could have been to complain, or to stand against the discrimination and exploitation of black people throughout history. However, as one starts to read, to avoid thinking about unnatural beings wandering around the scene that is depicted is impossible. The poem “Southern Mansion” represents a vivid image of a typical ghost story which includes the traditional element of the haunted house. This image is recreated by the two prominent and contradictory elements constantly presented through the poem: sound and silence. The elements are used in two leading ways, each one separate to represent sound or silence, and together to represent sound and silence at the same time. The poem mixes the two elements in order to create the spooky environment.
First, the tone of the book is fighting. The book is about a game that comes to life. One example of a frightening tone is that peter dropped the dice ready to see what would happen. It said “lion attack, move back one space”. He looked up at his sister to notice a frightening face. Peter turned around to notice a huge lion laying on the piano. It chased him to his aunt’s room. He slammed to door shut with the lion inside. This is very frightening.
The author uses a simile in lines 42-44 the author compares the streetlights to candles and activate the readers mental eye "the streetlights, like candles on a black cake went out he exhales again and again and the stars began to vanish".This simile helps set the image of Douglas turning of the street lights since it won't be night there anymore. The author also sets in plain lines 58-59 olfactory detail, and tactile imagery "the warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty halls". The olfactory detail , and tactile imagery help the reader's mental eye of the "somewhat" smell of "the warm scent of friend batter"and touch of "drafty halls".Bradbury finishes off the passage with a metaphor and visual imagery in lines 73-75 and figurative language onomotopia;sonic imagery and metaphor in lines81-83. Bradbury underlines a metaphor and visual imagery "soon, scattering hot blue sparks above it, the town trolley would sail the riveting black street". The author is conveying, a direct association in the readers mind and the visual imagery activates the reader mental eye to picture the "hot blue sparks".Bradbury also sets in play figurative language such as onomotopia and sonic imagery "Mom,Dad,Tom wake upchuck alarms tinkled faintly.The courthouse clocked boomed".The onomotopia gives the reader the chance to
The mood in “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury is, Eeriness. Illustrating this, firstly, is the quote “The street was silent, long and empty with only his shadow.” (Page 1, Line 31-32). It exhibits the mood by the eccentricity of the situation. The streets of a crowded town are empty at 8:30 at night; they are noiseless with no people to be seen. As a result of the oddity of the situation, the mood is Eerie. Secondly, in addition to the first quote, there are several lines illustrating the mood. A representation of this is the excerpt from page 3 lines 19-21, “Leaving the empty streets with the empty side-walks, and no sound and no motion all the rest of the chill November night.” This line is an exceptional example of the mood for several reasons.
What is mood? Mood is the overall feeling or atmosphere of a work of literature. The feeling a reader gets while reading a work of literature is called mood. Also, mood helps bring a certain feeling or emotion into a reader's mind. Furthermore, a writer may also produce a unique mood with the usage of literary devices such as irony, similes, and personification, which are inserted throughout the story. For the most part, these literary devices help enhance a reader's experience while reading the story. Also, literary devices help act as guides to find the author's purpose in reading the work of literature such as for entertainment, persuasion, or to inform. This story is called "Three Skeleton Key" by George G. Toulouse. In summary, "Three
Mood is what the reader feels while reading a story or scene. It’s not the reader’s emotions, but the atmosphere of a scene or story. It’s what the reader reads or feels or notices. In both of these stories (For Esme-With Love and Squalor and Atticus) characters grows somewhere between the opening sentence and the final paragraph.
Noah Webster, author of Webster’s Dictionary, defines mood as the “temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling“ and “a morbid or fantastic state of mind.” E. L. Thorndike and Clarence L. Barnhart, authors of Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary, define mood as “the overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional aura of a work.” Shakespeare’s Macbeth, especially the pivotal and ominous second act, exemplifies both denotations of mood. The act has an “overall atmosphere,” even though the mood shifts, while this mood places a sense of cliff-hanging anxiety at the beginning, an ambiance of hysterics towards the middle, a feeling of tragic realization directly following, and an unsure aura of occult extractions. Shakespeare cleverly uses six key elements to further shape and add to the mood: the characters, the imagery, the setting, the sounds, the characters’ actions, and the characters’ dialogue.
The setting gives the reader a sense that terror awaits. This story shows this by talking about the lighting
The general mood of the story is mainly happy and I feel that the author was able to create and maintain this mood because the story is told from the perspective of a generally happy, optimistic main character.
The main themes in Edgar Allen Poe’s stories are many different forms of fear. He was a writer with an unmatched style, in a good way or bad. The characters in his works are great symbols of this, as they act and speak they can be frightening. How the short stories create suspense is also amazingly terrifying. Some of the scenes he makes with a combination of characters, suspense, and of course his plentiful violent or morbid moments add up for a great mix of menacing, fear-inducing tales. This story is about a narrator and his obsession for a certain eye of an old man.
The night sky was dismal, a brutal darkness with only the moon hanging lonely, sightlessly peering through the eerie fog. The spine-chilling wind blowing, whistling and howling as if sending signs of vileness ((whispers of…….?????)). The huge petrifying old oak trees with finger-like branches swaying violently.
In conclusion, the shifts in actions and attitudes of the governess cause the tone to shift throughout the novel. The tone begins with being joyful and dreamy to furious in the middle and mournful in the end. This all concludes, that the literary device tone is very effective in portraying the mood of the story through the characters actions to the reader. Tone is perhaps one of the most important literary devices author’s use to connect the mood of the story to a reader’s heart and really makes them feel for the characters and what they go through.
	The speaker of the poem is a civilian observer, probably a local. There is a sense of tension and fear in the speaker’s tone. The speaker uses an observatory tone in the poem, a combination between 1st and 3rd person. The author shows us that the speaker is an observer when he says "They are not there…/You finger the trigger of your Bren." (ll. 8&10) You can clearly see that the author creates tension when he says "Half-fearing, half-desiring the sudden hell/ Pressure will loose." (ll. 11-12) The poet has a way of building us up to a climax then letting us down, and again he gets us on the edge of our seat, only to sit back down quickly.
“Besides taking a hit on our ability to spend time outside, both in extreme and everyday cases, weather can have a real impact on our health and well-being” (Gregoire). The impact of weather upon a person goes beyond their choice of apparel or their plans for the day; it can directly affect a person’s mood, for better or for worse. Do the dark, gray skies on a rainy day actually cause someone to feel gloomy? Would someone be more prone to smiling if they were feeling the warmth of the sun against their skin? If the general public was surveyed, the majority of people would say that weather has little to no impact on a person’s mood (Grohol). However, with more in depth research and a wider spectrum of people studied, it has been found that there is a strong correlation between weather and one’s mood. Similar to the weather, peoples’ moods are constantly changing. A person’s mood can be affected in various ways, but one of the most common is by the weather. The affects can be severe; ranging from chronic depression to excessive happiness. Although these two phenomena appear to be unrelated, the fact that they are simultaneously changing in relation to each other is an indication that they are indeed associated.