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Setting and Mood in The Fall of the House of Usher
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Setting and Mood in "The Fall of the House of
Usher"
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Setting and Mood in The Fall of the House of Usher
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What is mood? In literature, mood is a literary element that evokes or suggests certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.
Mood can also be called the atmosphere of a piece of writing. It creates an emotional situation for the reader.
Mood can be developed through setting.
Setting and Mood in The Fall of the House of Usher
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“There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago.” Emily Bronte, “Wuthering Heights”
Try and visualize what the author is describing
Mood: ________________________
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Try and visualize what the author is describing
Mood: ________________________
“It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard.”
Zora Neal Hurston, “Their Eyes were Watching God”
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Point in the Story. What is happening? (Examples narr. arrives at house, Roderick and narrator are passing the time, end)
Quote Circle key words the help suggest the mood What mood being evoke
Beginningnarrator is on his way to The House of Usher
“…..during the whole dull, dark , soundless day in the autumn of the year.”
Depressing, foreboding.
Setting and Mood in The Fall of the House of Usher
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Point in the Story. What is happening? (Examples narr. arrives at house, Roderick and narrator are passing the time, end)
Quote Circle key words the help suggest the mood
What mood being evoke
Beginningnarrator is on his way to The House of Usher
“…..during the whole dull, dark , soundless day in the autumn of the year.”
Depressing, foreboding.
the bleak walls, vacant eye like windows , upon a few rank sedges and the white trunks of decaying trees
Setting and Mood in The Fall of the House of Usher
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Point in the Story. What is happening? (Examples narr. arrives at house, Roderick and narrator are passing the time, end)
Quote Circle key words the help suggest the mood
What mood being evoke
Beginningnarrator is on his way to The House of Usher
“…..during the whole dull, dark , soundless day in the autumn of the year.”
Depressing, foreboding.
Setting and Mood in The Fall of the House of Usher
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Let’s look at some examples of how authors develop mood.
“The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”
Charles Dickens, “Pickwick Papers”:
Mood: ________________________
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