ENGL 2744 Chapter 5 pg. 135-165: Imaginative Writing 4th Edition pg. 135-165
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Imaginative writing setting: place and period in which a story or drama takes place. Setting as the world setting involves everything that supports and impinges on your characters techniques of setting- the machine of the story - are those you have already encountered as image and voice. Details chosen to evoke place will also signal the period. Be alert to the sense impressions of your inner eye. Setting as a camera setting often begins a piece. Mood/atmosphere: tone and attitude as well as the setting, period, weather, and time of day, of a story: background to the characters" foreground. Mood is a state of mind or emotion setting is to some degree symbolic setting is suggestive of larger meaning. Potential for emotion inherent in place, time, and weather can be used or heightened (or invented) to dramatic effect in writing.
