ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Tone is how the author feels towards the subject. We see this by the way the author describes the subject. Mood is how we feel when reading the story.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader. Often described as a “mood” that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem’s vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme.

Detailed explanation-4: -Generally, tone, setting, theme and language, used together can help set the mood in fiction.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mood is how the author wants the reader to feel, as a result of reading (or watching) their work. The mood of a piece might be funny, sad, creepy, cheerful, nostalgic, curious, and so on. Tone is how the author-or, in fiction, the narrator-feels about their subject matter.