What Is Tone in Literature?
In literary analysis, tone is an author's attitude toward their subject matter. The author's tone in a literary work can reflect their personal opinion.
How does the author create tone in their work?
Authors convey tone through their word choice, punctuation, and sentence structure.
What Is Mood in Literature?
The atmosphere of a piece and the overall feeling it conveys to the reader.
How is mood created by the author?
Authors convey mood through figurative language and literary devices.
Identify the figurative device in the example: Her love for her children is as constant as the passing of time.
Simile
Identify the figurative device in the example: The tall trees were curtains that surrounded us during our picnic.
Metaphor
Identify the figurative device in the example: The tree's limb cracked and groaned when lightning hit it.
Personification
Identify the figurative device in the example: The wet firewood hissed and crackled, but did not want to burn at all.
Onomatopoeia
Identify the figurative device in the example: The loud silence of night keeps him awake.
Oxymoron
Identify the figurative device in the example: I've told you a million times to clean your room!
Hyperbole
Identify the figurative device in the example: We're up, wide-eyed, and wondering while we wait for others to awaken.
Alliteration
Identify the figurative device in the example: I tried with all my might to fly that kite.
Assonance
What is an idiom?
An idiom is a commonly used expression that has acquired a meaning different from its literal meaning.
Identify the figurative device in the example: The children could not play baseball because it was raining cats and dogs outside.
Idiom
Identify the figurative device in the example: She was Helen of Troy of the class and made all the boys fight.
Allusion
What is synecdoche?
Synecdoche is a figure of speech that uses a part of something to refer to its whole.
