Detail Flashcards
Term: Mood
Meaning: The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.
Example #1: Something unfair happens in the workplace and a group of employees lose their jobs. This group’s mood can be described as frustrated and enraged.
Example #2: A group of students gets to go on a fun field trip for the day instead of sitting in the classroom, the mood can be described as excited or elated.
Term: Imagery
Meaning: Descriptive language used to appeal to a reader’s senses: touch, taste, smell, sound, and sight.
Example #1: The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.
Example #2: Her lips tasted as sweet as sugar.
Term: Setting
Meaning: Is where a story or scene takes place and can significantly affect the mood of a piece.
Example #1: A story about a young girl who experiences bullying at school is set in a suburb of Atlanta, GA in the 1980s
Example #2: That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.
