TONE/MOOD

Tone allows the author to reflect different attitudes toward the subject of the work. And mood comes hand in hand with tone as it is the result of tone: the feeling the reader gets due to the tone of the environment. Without tone or mood authors would not be able to include emotion in their works nor would they be able to increase readers' attention by sounding relatable. Literary devices such as diction, figurative language, imagery, syntax, all contribute to the tone and mood of a poem. These devices are then used in the writers choice of style to portray specific emotions. The tone and mood of a text can be difficult to determine without hearing the speaker's tone of voice, however, if you look beneath the surface of the text and analyze the type of words the author is using, the style the author chooses to configure, and the meaning created by figures of speech, you can hopefully decipher the tone/mood the author is trying to portray.