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Setting and Mood in "The Fall of the House of 

Usher"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IItGdq­ApjQ

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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.  

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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. 

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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

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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. 

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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: ________________________