Mood refers to the emotion felt both by the characters and the reader. Mood may be created by the way that the author chooses to use the words. In the short story called, "The Most Dangerous Game," written by Richard Connell, Rainsford, the protagonist, gets stranded on an island where he goes through a lot of conflicts. In this story the author through his use of setting, characters, and plot creates mood.

The first literary element in this story that creates mood is it's setting; the setting gives the reader some information as what the mood will be like. For example, when Rainsford was sitting down alone on the ship, he thought that "I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids" (2). When a person closes their eyelids, it becomes very dark. However, here Rainsford has not even closed his...