My teacher says that mood and tone are not the same thing, but I have trouble establishing a difference between the two. How can I tell them apart?

Mood: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/2terms.html#Mood

Tone:
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/3terms.html#Tone

Please re-post if the difference is not clear. It's obvious they're closely related, but not exactly the same thing.

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What does tone and mood mean?

Hi. I think that tone is a way of narrating a story. It can be "highly detailed" for example.

But Mood is a feeling that the reader creates towards us. It may be fascinating, interesting etc...

Are you ignorant or are you some kind of weak link that doesn't pay attention in class

Mood is the feeling YOU get while reading. Tone is the way the AUTHOR feels about something.

Tone is the way an author or the narrator feel while writing or narrarating a poem or story. The mood is how you, the audience, feels

sigh so much anger from you all!! Anyways, mood is the atmospheric feeling surrounding the story while tone is the author's/narrator's feeling towards it and how they present it...... Hope that helped!

mood is what the reader feels when reading while the tone is the feeling that th author is tring to pertray. mood is what you get out of the tone

think of tone as the attitude and mood as the atmosphere.

tone is the attitude of the writer- imagine how the writer would be talking if s/he were reading aloud.

The mood is the way the story makes the reader feel. usually, depending on the tone of the writing, it will affect the mood, but not always. If the tone is ironic and understated the mood might be heavy and gloomy.

tks a lot

what are classical examples of mood and tone?

whay is mood and tone

Mood is what the reader creates in our mind.

Tone is a way of naratting a story.

well I think that is is what emotion is given from the book or movie ect. It can be romantic horrific, ect.

Why are you all being suck pricks? If you're not going to answer a question go and do something else- get a life!