English - Literature - Story Elements - Mood and tone - Mood vs Tone

5 steps: (1) MOOD = how the READER feels. Scary? Happy? Tense? Sad? The atmosphere of the story. (2) TONE = the AUTHOR'S attitude toward the subject. Serious? Humorous? Angry? Sarcastic? Sympathetic? (3) How authors create MOOD: word choice (dark/gloomy vs bright/cheerful), sentence length (short=te