Moods in a book.

Moods. Such a simple word to express what we experience every day without fail.

Movies can control our moods easily, with loud sound effects or romantic, slow songs for each scene. As for books, there are many people who claim that books are boring compared to movies. After all, books can't have background music for each and every chapter. However, those same people can be proven wrong, because words CAN express moods. Just by using different phrases to replace a simple word can broaden the aspects so much more and captivate the reader's attention to the book. Repetitive phrases can easily bore the reader because there is no 'oomph' to the story. A good book is a book that can influence the mood of the reader such that the reader cannot put the book down, eagerly navigating through the pages in greed for more.

As for me, when I write stories, I try to use my knowledge of vocabulary to use different words that have the same meaning. For instance, 'eat', can be replaced with other phrases such as devour, nibble or even graze to beautify my writing. It provides a more interesting read for the reader even though these words are commonly heard in our everyday lives. 'Eat' gives an impression to the reader that the protagonist is just chewing and swallowing, but 'devour', however, paints a picture of the protagonist starving and wolfing down food in a hurry. That simple change of writing could affect our essays greatly.