Aliened | Altruistic |
Ambitious | Apprehensive |
Astonished | Awestruck |
Bleak | Blissful |
Boring | Calm |
Charming | Comfortable |
Contemplative | Contemptuous |
Curious | Cynical |
Dark | Desolate |
Diabolic | Dignified |
Disgust | Dreamy |
Empathy | Enthralling |
Envy | Erratic |
Euphoric | Evocative |
Fear | Frustration |
Gregarious | Heartbreaking |
Heated | Hopeless |
Horror | Humility |
Humorous | Indignation |
Intriguing | Joyful |
Jubilant | Lighthearted |
Lively | Loathing |
Lonely | Lush |
Majestic | Malevolent |
Melancholy | Miserable |
Musing | Nervous |
Nostalgic | Ominous |
Optimistic | Opulent |
Otherworldly | Passionate |
Peaceful | Pensive |
Perky | Pessimistic |
Playful | Psychotic |
Repugnant | Romantic |
Sad | Sardonic |
Schadenfreude | Sentimental |
Serious | Sombre |
Stark | Stirring |
Sumptuous | Suspenseful |
Suspicious | Sympathetic |
Tender | Tense |
Terror | Thrilling |
Tragic | Transcendent |
Triumphant | Turbulent |
Uneasy | Vengeful |
Violent | Wanderlust |
Mood vs Atmosphere
Mood is a general feeling a work seeks to invoke in the reader. This may shift regularly within the work. For example, the mood may shift from joyous to sentimental to miserable within a single chapter. Atmosphere is the high level emotion conveyed by an entire work or segment of a work. For example, a gloomy chapter. At some level, mood and atmosphere align.Mood vs Tone
Tone is the emotion conveyed by the characters or narrator of a work towards a particular subject. For example, a narrator who adopts a tender tone towards one character but a hostile tone towards another. Tone is one of many devices that can be used to establish mood. Tone doesn't necessarily align to mood. For example, you could adopt a playful tone that helps create a sad mood that contributes to a romantic atmosphere.| Overview: Mood | ||
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Definition | The overall emotion that a literary work, scene or passage seeks to invoke in the reader. | |
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