Tone is the attitude advanced by the narrator of a story. Mood is the attitudes and general feelings that are conveyed by the characters in the story.Atmosphere is the general feelings that are...
Many glossaries of literary terms do not distinguish between tone and mood, attributing to them the same definition. The feeling that the story induces in the reader.Some glossaries how do have...
The first difficulty in distinguishing the two is that there is not very often a clear distinction made for the terms. By some definitions (but not everybody's) Tone refers to the attitude taken by...