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Mood — OCR GCSE English Language Definition

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GCSE English Language · key term

Mood

Definition

An emotional atmosphere created by a text, such as unease or excitement.

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OCR GCSE English Language · J351

Paper 2

Mood is the emotional atmosphere; tension is the anxious anticipation of what may happen. To track them, notice what changes across a passage and connect those changes to particular words or events.
Revise: Reading 20th- and 21st-century literary prose

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