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Literary theory is largely absent from high school English courses. While virtually all. high school students read and respond to literature, few are given opportunities to analyze. the works they read using established, critical methods. This curriculum unit will. introduce high school students to four critical approaches, and it will ask students to. apply each approach to selected works of childrenâs literature. Four methods of literary criticism - feminism, Marxism, post-colonial criticism, and. reader-centered criticism â are especially useful in understanding the wide variety of texts. students study in high school and college English courses.
Identifying the tone and mood in literatures is an important clue to discover the literaryâs theme. Considering how the author creates a tone and mood helps the reader understand and appreciate the authorâs style. Tone is a manner, a feeling or atmosphere the author has meant to set in the story, or towards a subject. It can also be considered as the attitude or feeling of the writer towards a subject. The tone can be revealed by the authorâs choice of words and details.