Answer:
Mood in a poem is the tone that the poem is written.
A mood is a literary element that stirs up certain feelings in its readers because of its contents.
The mood of a poem can either be sorrowful, happy, angry expectant, despondent, etc.
There are different types of poems such as ode, ballad, elegy, etc and they usually have typical moods.
<span>A) Here is what my mother said to me, at least once: "Jerry, you've got to try a little harder."
Since the quotation from his mother is set off from the rest of the sentence, not continuing it, a colon is appropriate. Additionally, the comma before "at least once" is correct and after "Jerry" is also correct. </span>
