Thursday 22nd April 2010

Mood & Atmosphere

Success criteria:• I understand and identify the

techniques used to create atmosphere.

• I can plan a response to an exam-style question.

Whole Text Level / Structural Features:

• Tense – future / present• Repetition / patterning

• Lexical set (death)• Narrative voice (1st person) &

stance• Control of information

• Generic features• Characterisation

Sentence Level Features (Linguistic):

• Simple & minor sentences• Declarative / interrogative /

exclamatory mood• Commas & subordinate clauses

•Listing (syndetic / asyndetic)• Use of adverbials / foregrounding

• Colons

Word Level Features (Linguistic):• “will” (auxiliary verb)

• semantic fields / lexical sets• connotations

• modifiers / adjectives• nouns – abstract, concrete,

proper• verbs (dynamic, stative,

auxiliary)• pronouns

• determiners / articles• compound words

• coinages

Literary Techniques:• Symbolism & motifs

• Personification• Pathetic fallacy

• Similes• Metaphors

• Onomatopoeia / alliteration / assonance

Mood & Atmospher

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Exam-Style Question – Due Tuesday 27th April

Remind yourself of the extract from p. 450-452 in “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, dated Saturday, October 27, 1984. Discuss how mood and atmosphere is created in this extract. Go on to explore how mood and atmosphere is created in at least two other scenes in this novel and in “The Time Machine”.

• Use the cone to structure your approach• Compare to the first time we saw these events from

Clare’s perspective & the last time we see them from Henry’s older perspective.

• Select 2 scenes in “The Time Machine” when a similar mood is created. Analyse & compare in detail.

• Consider how narrative stance & voice as well as control of information affect mood & atmosphere as well as analysing on sentence & word level (including imagery).