Alexis Reeder- November 1, 2016

          Today in class, we learned how to distinguish the difference between mood and tone.
The questions you always want to think about while you read a poem or short story are: What mood is present? How is it developed? How can we pare this down to a singular, specific sentence.
Together the class read "the Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe and discussed it amongst each other.
My group explained how "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe develops a suspenseful mood through its slow, drawn out passages of description as well as frequent and poignant psychotic narration in regard to both the main character and his murderous actions.

        What is tone? Tone is the attitude a test toward its subject Almost always implicit Denotation the literal definition of a wordWhich is always positive. Connotation the socially understood meaning of a word which is negative and can change over time.