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    Mood and Tone Lyric Analysis

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    This document provides instructions and questions for analyzing the mood, tone, literary devices, symbols, and themes in the songs "People Are Strange" and "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors. For each song, students are asked to complete a graphic organizer identifying the tone of the music and mood of the lyrics, and provide evidence from the text. They are then asked to identify any literary devices, symbols, and overarching theme in the song, along with highlighted evidence from the lyrics.

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    This document provides instructions and questions for analyzing the mood, tone, literary devices, symbols, and themes in the songs "People Are Strange" and "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors. For each song, students are asked to complete a graphic organizer identifying the tone of the music and mood of the lyrics, and provide evidence from the text. They are then asked to identify any literary devices, symbols, and overarching theme in the song, along with highlighted evidence from the lyrics.

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    This document provides instructions and questions for analyzing the mood, tone, literary devices, symbols, and themes in the songs "People Are Strange" and "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors. For each song, students are asked to complete a graphic organizer identifying the tone of the music and mood of the lyrics, and provide evidence from the text. They are then asked to identify any literary devices, symbols, and overarching theme in the song, along with highlighted evidence from the lyrics.

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    Mood and Tone Lyric Analysis

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    Terence Bundela
    This document provides instructions and questions for analyzing the mood, tone, literary devices, symbols, and themes in the songs "People Are Strange" and "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors. For each song, students are asked to complete a graphic organizer identifying the tone of the music and mood of the lyrics, and provide evidence from the text. They are then asked to identify any literary devices, symbols, and overarching theme in the song, along with highlighted evidence from the lyrics.

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    Name:____________________________________________________Date:_______________Block:______

    Music & Lyrics Analysis: Mood and Tone


    Directions: Read, listen to, and annotate the lyrics. Complete the graphic
    organizer for each song. Then answer the rest of the questions for each song.

    Song Title: “People Are Strange” by The Doors

    Tone (music) Mood (lyrics)

    Why? (Evidence from the text) Why? (Evidence from the text)

    Song Title: “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors

    Tone (music) Mood (lyrics)

    Why? (Evidence from the text) Why? (Evidence from the text)
    Song Title: “People Are Strange” by The Doors

    Literary Devices:
    • Are there any metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, imagery (5
    senses), etc. in your song?
    • What are they and what do they represent?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Symbols:
    • Are there any symbols in your song?
    • What do they represent?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Theme: (i.e. friendship, hope, love, loss, growing up, family,
    overcoming challenges etc.)
    • What do you think this song is saying about life?
    • Is there something to be learned?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Evidence of Theme:
    • On your copy of the song, HIGHLIGHT words/phrases that support the
    theme you have chosen. Then list these words/phrases below:
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Song Title: “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors

    Literary Devices:
    • Are there any metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, imagery (5
    senses), etc. in your song?
    • What are they and what do they represent?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Symbols:
    • Are there any symbols in your song?
    • What do they represent?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Theme: (i.e. friendship, hope, love, loss, growing up, family,
    overcoming challenges etc.)
    • What do you think this song is saying about life?
    • Is there something to be learned?
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    Evidence of Theme:
    • On your copy of the song, HIGHLIGHT words/phrases that support the
    theme you have chosen. Then list these words/phrases below:
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________

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