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.
For the first two paragraphs, ominous and abstract diction, such as “uneasy”, “ominously”, and “roamed” is used to describe “the victim's” feelings towards the wind (paragraphs 1-2). This creates a tense, uneasy tone that hints towards the idea that the winds are supernatural. Her diction changes as the third paragraph progresses. Here, it goes from supernatural tone to one of well researched analysis. This is assisted by the use of specific terms like “foehn”, “surgeons”, and “ions”, which are words that are not ominous, but specific and scientific. It is also a turn in tone from the mystical “folklore” paragraphs into ones that are not speculative. The overall mood of the remains ominous and uneasy, despite the fact that the cause of everybody’s discomfort is disclosed to some degree at the end. Because this disclosure is not very thorough and people’s reactions are so strange, the mood stays the same as the tone of the first two
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 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.
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.
Stoker chooses to lay some clues out for the readers in order to help them interpret Dracula. The distinct warning presented on the page before the introduction saying the narrators wrote to the best of their knowledge the facts that they witnessed. Next is the chapter where Jonathan Harker openly questions the group’s interpretations of the unsettling events that occur from meeting Dracula, and the sanity of the whole. Several characters could be considered emotionally unstable. Senf suggests that Stoker made the central normal characters hunting Dracula ill-equipped to judge the extraordinary events with which they were faced. The central characters were made two dimensional and had no distinguishing characteristics other then the...
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
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
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 producer was aiming to create mystery and fear. The dark of the night and the description of the house as feeling dead in the protagonist’s narration sets a suspenseful scene filled with fear and tension. The young girl is followed by the camera as she explores the mansion. When entering the room suspected to be that of her aunts the camera leaves her side to pan around the room. The darkness doesn’t reveal everything but one becomes aware of a search. The revelation of little secrets leaves the viewer with many questions. The room is familiar to the protagonist as she finds items symbolic to her and familiar photographs. This familiarity however does not retract from suspicions that something sinister has been hidden. The producer has successfully captivated the viewer. The protagonist is being followed throughout the scene and has thus allowed for the viewer to bond with them. They are engaging with the audience through narration and have in return enticed the viewer to follow them along their journey. One feels nervous for the young girl however through tension in the scene one does not want them to discontinue the journey as too many questions have been left unanswered. One has been drawn into the world of which the protagonist dwells and is intrigued as to how the drama is
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.
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.
	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.