Freddy Kreuger meets My Little Pony

"Atmosphere, a term taken from meteorology, means the predominant mood or TONE in all or part of a literary work, which may, for example, be joyeous, tranquil, melancholy, eerie, tense, or ominous...For example, Shakespeare's Macbeth begins with the following stage direction: Thunder and lighting.  Enter three WITCHES" (Hamilton 89).

I think that Hamilton does a really great job of picking an example of atmosphere.  I remember when I read these lines I got a chill.  Ok...not really but these lines could possibly be chill-inducing.  The atmosphere of a story is very important.  Wait...I just thought of an example that may be equally as great as the Macbeth example.  Say it with me people, "Once upon a midnight dreary,/ While I pondered weak and weary" from Poe's The Raven.  You obviously know we aren't going to be talking about fluffy pink ponies and bubble gum unless the poem were about an ax murderer who has an affinity for chewing bubble bum while he kills cute things.

Angela on imagery