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    The document discusses tone, mood, technique, and purpose of the author. It defines these terms and explains how the author's purpose determines the techniques used. Specifically, it outlines how the author's purpose can be to entertain, persuade, inform, explain, or describe. The purpose then influences the tone taken and mood created, which can be writer-centered or reader-centered respectively. Understanding the author's purpose provides context for their decisions in writing and presenting information.

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    The document discusses tone, mood, technique, and purpose of the author. It defines these terms and explains how the author's purpose determines the techniques used. Specifically, it outlines how the author's purpose can be to entertain, persuade, inform, explain, or describe. The purpose then influences the tone taken and mood created, which can be writer-centered or reader-centered respectively. Understanding the author's purpose provides context for their decisions in writing and presenting information.

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    Tone Mood and Purpose of The Author

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    The document discusses tone, mood, technique, and purpose of the author. It defines these terms and explains how the author's purpose determines the techniques used. Specifically, it outlines how the author's purpose can be to entertain, persuade, inform, explain, or describe. The purpose then influences the tone taken and mood created, which can be writer-centered or reader-centered respectively. Understanding the author's purpose provides context for their decisions in writing and presenting information.

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    LEARNING TARGET

    1. Express appreciation for sensory


    images used. EN9LT-IId-2.2.1
    2. Determine tone, mood, technique,
    and purpose of the author.
    EN9LT-IIf-2.2.3; EN9LT-IIg-2.2.3
    Author’s Purpose – WHY it was said / written
    TO TO TO TO TEACH / TO
    ENTERTAIN PERSUADE INFORM EXPLAIN DESCRIBE
    The author The author The author The author helps The author
    wants to wants to wants to give readers gives a picture
    amuse you or convince you information. understand a with words of
    subject
    for you to to act on a person,
    (sometimes
    enjoy the text. something. place, event,
    through
    directions). or item.
    Examples include Examples include Examples include Examples include Examples include
    fiction stories, poems, campaign speeches, textbooks, non-fiction recipe books, travel books,
    jokes, songs, plays, advertisements, books, biographies, instruction manuals, vacation brochures,
    etc. opinions, etc. newspapers, experiment advertisement flyers,
    magazine articles, compilation, etc. etc.
    etc.
    TONE and MOOD

    HOW it was said

    TONE MOOD

    It is writer-centered. It is reader-centered.

    It is the attitude a writer It is the overall feeling or


    takes to towards the atmosphere created by a
    subject or the reader. work of literature.
    The writer’s overall purpose determines the
    techniques he or she uses.
    The writer’s reason for writing a particular article or book
    may be manipulative, as in propaganda or advertising, or
    may be more straightforward, as in informative writing. In
    either case, understanding the writer’s underlying purpose
    will help you interpret the context of the writing.
    It will also help you see why writers make the decisions
    they do—from the largest decisions about what
    information to present to the smallest details of what
    words to use.

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