Tone (literature)

[1] As the nature of commercial media and other such artistic expressions have evolved over time, the concept of an artwork's tone requiring analysis has been applied to other actions such as film production.

For example, an evaluation of the "French New Wave" occurred during the spring of 1974 in the pages of Film Quarterly, which had studied particular directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut.

[11] Some other examples of literary tone are: airy, comic, condescending, facetious, funny, heavy, intimate, ironic, light, modest, playful, sad, serious, sinister, solemn, somber, and threatening.

[1] As the nature of commercial media and other such artistic expressions have evolved over time, the concept of an artwork's tone requiring analysis has involved cultural efforts such as film production.

This appropriated word has come to represent attitudes and feelings a speaker (in poetry), a narrator (in fiction), or an author (in non-literary prose) has towards the subject, situation, and/or the intended audience.

[further explanation needed][13] In many cases, the tone of a work may change and even clearly shift in a fundamental way as the speaker being described in a detached fashion (or the narrator being listened to) has his or her perspective on a particular subject evolve throughout the piece.

For example, novels with a horror theme can have previously calm, uninvolved individuals coming upon an extreme situation, such as violence involving the supernatural, growing more and more passionate in a way that turns the entire writing increasingly emotional.