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What is the difference between tone and mood?
Ask who feels it: the voice of the poem or the reader.
Name two words for the tone and two words for the mood of 'Crow Tyrannosaurus'.
The poem presents violence without softening it.
Which statement describes tone?
Tone is about the voice.
Which word best describes the dominant tone of 'Crow Tyrannosaurus'?
Think of bare and unsoftened.
Write three short descriptions, each of two sentences, of a crow feeding: one tender, one comic and one stark and unsentimental. Then explain which choices of words and sentence shape produced each tone.
Look at adjectives, comparisons, verbs and sentence length in each version.
Explain in about 150 words why both tone and mood must be treated in a critical appreciation, and how they relate in 'Crow Tyrannosaurus'.
Treat tone as the cause and mood as the effect.
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