___________ is the way an author's words make the reader feel.
The use of the ellipsis at the end of the mother’s comment makes her seem even more vague than her cliched clichéd words. © imply-1995 2002 By Steve. Peha for more, information or for additional teaching, materials please: Contact Teaching That Makes, Sense. inc Thanks for being so helpful in mathematics. If you are getting quality help, make sure you spread the word about OpenStudy. Tone is conveyed through the author's words and details. Use context clues to help determine the tone. In literature an author sets the tone through words. The possible tones are as boundless as the number of possible emotions a human being can have. “Let’s get out of this place.” The two of them walked out the front door together. Nobody in the room had said a word. © 1995-2002 by Steve Peha. For more information, or for additional teaching materials, please contact: Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc. • E-mail stevepeha@aol.com • Web READ LIKE A WRITER www.ttms.orgIdeas: The author continues with the basic theme of Eddie’s flying getting him in trouble. One technique the writer can make use of to create reality out of fiction is to induce emotion in readers, make them feel something of what the characters are experiencing. Writer and reader know the fictional events aren’t real, but the emotion can be. Readers can fear and feel joy and be excited and know grief. Produce in the reader both the emotion from the situation and the hope that the character can triumph. 8. Put your characters under time constraints to increase tension, to cause them to make decisions they might not ordinarily make, to set them—and the reader—on edge. Reference. I wrote an article on the importance of creating emotions in readers, but I’ve noticed that writers are looking for specifics on how to accomplish that. So, this article complements that first one, presents practical tips on how to stir the reader’s emotions. Read more about it! Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through words. The way a person feels about an idea, event, or another person can be quickly determined through facial expressions, gestures and in the tone of voice used. MOOD: (sometimes called atmosphere) the overall feeling of the work Mood is the emotions that you (the reader) feel while you are reading. Tone is set by the setting, choice of vocabulary and other details. Mood is the general atmosphere created by the author’s words. It is the feeling the reader gets from reading those words. It may be the same, or it may change from situation to situation. The use of the ellipsis at the end of the mother’s comment makes her seem even more vague than her cliched clichéd words. © imply-1995 2002 By Steve. Peha for more, information or for additional teaching, materials please: Contact Teaching That Makes, Sense. • Inc-e mailstevepeha@.aol • Com web.www.ttms. org
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