Mood
The emotional atmosphere or prevailing sentiment that a text creates in the reader through imagery, tone, language choice, and setting. Mood is the reader's emotional experience, shaped by the author's stylistic choices.
Real World
The oppressive, claustrophobic mood of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is created not through explicit horror but through the narrator Kathy's eerily detached acceptance — the mismatch between tone and subject generates unease.
Exam Focus
Name the mood precisely (e.g. 'foreboding' rather than 'sad') and identify at least two specific techniques that cumulatively create it.
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