ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In literature, the tone of a literary work expresses the writer’s attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mood, or atmosphere, is the general feeling a reader experiences as they read a piece of literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Atmosphere is the aura of mood that surrounds the story. It is to fiction what the sensory level is to poetry or mise-en-scene is to cinema. Mood is established in order to affect the reader emotionally and psychologically and to provide a feeling for the narrative.

Detailed explanation-4: -Using the appropriate kind of descriptive words, including imagery, or vivid language used to paint a mental picture, can convey mood and tone by helping readers get a clearer sense of what they’re reading about and how the author thinks and feels about the subject, and thus what they’re supposed to think and feel.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mood in Literature: Tone is the author’s attitude, whereas mood is the emotion evoked in the reader. Sometimes, tone and mood are aligned. If the subject matter of a story is sad, then both the tone and the mood conveyed by the author may be sad, too.