What is tone, and how do I write about it?

When teachers, or other people who think about these things, talk about tone, they are talking about the ways that the author or narrator feels about the particular subject being discussed in the writing.  While tone and mood are similar, 'tone' refers to the author, or in the case of fiction, the narrator, and 'mood' refers to the emotional response of the reader.

How do authors create tone?  By using the elements of literature and language that we are ponder in English class.  One helpful tool for considering tone is the DIDLS acronym.  DIDLS stands for diction, images, details, language, and sentence structure.  

There are many sources on the internet available to help understand the DIDLS method for analyzing tone.