ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Mood is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and tone. Tone can indicate the narrator’s mood, but the overall mood comes from the totality of the written work, even in first-person narratives.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Answer: A normal day without rain should have a sky with mostly white or light gray clouds. But dark gray or blackish clouds before sunset suggests that the clouds are getting too heavy with droplets and could soon start to rain.

Detailed explanation-3: -A literary element refers to components of a literary work (character, setting, plot, theme, frame, exposition, ending/denouement, motif, titling, narrative point-‐of-‐view). These are technical terms for the “what” of a work.

Detailed explanation-4: -A question on tone is asking you what the writer’s choice of words reveals about his feelings or his attitude to his subject.