1 Vance County Latest Crime Records, Last Recorded 2014 (Updated 09/02/2017) 2  Vance County American Community Survey (ACS) 2014 Census Bureau. 3  Vance County Census Data. 4  Cities and Towns of Vance County, NC.
A tone is the overall mood of a story, the way it makes you feel.
Finally, look at the details of the story. Language is the first step to finding the tone, but the word choice is just as important. Look how an author describes the setting, a character, or an event. This description will help create the tone. But, they sound so alike: mood and tone do seem very similar, but they are two separate literary elements. Tone is how the author feels towards the subject. We see this by the way the author describes the subject. Mood is how we feel when reading the story. It is our reaction to the atmosphere described by the author.