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Setting: Summer Of Late 19th Century Georgia
A well written setting usually goes unnoticed because the reader doesn't need to have a word for word description of a setting to get the general idea and time frame. For example, in a historical fictional piece, a reader usually gets the background using their prior knowledge to understand a writer's use of setting by simply stating: Summer of late 19th Century Georgia, as it was an iconic time period of bringing to mind southern bells and political unrest. The writer doesn't have to delve into describing every single bit and piece of the setting because they rely on the readers prior knowledge of the subject. In a highly fictional piece, the reader expects the setting to be unusual and out of the ordinary setting and it is easy to visualize

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