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: -Atmosphere is the overall mood of a story or poem. It’s usually something readers can’t quite put their finger on – not a motif or a theme, but a “feel” that readers get as they read. It’s very difficult to define, but you know an atmosphere when you read it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mood: the way a literary text makes you (the reader) feel. Atmosphere: the way a place or setting makes you (the reader) feel.

Detailed explanation-4: -A mood is a feeling that can refer to the emotional state of mind of a person/character or the atmosphere of a story. Mood is omnipresent in stories. In literature, mood is communicated subtly through the use of imagery, conflict, etc.; and explicitly through omniscient narration or dialogue.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mood and atmosphere are created by diction, dialogues, descriptions, tone, setting, etc.