Setting and Tone

Setting

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Tone and setting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tone" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

Tone noun - A distinctive way of putting ideas into words.

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Setting and tone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Tone".

Nearby Words: toneless, toned, toning, tonal

high	high setting	high tone
low	low setting	low tone
similar	similar setting	similar tone
normal	normal setting	normal tone
Other adjectives: usual, natural, original, proper, single, romantic, actual, entire, serious, dark, grim, bleak, new, idealistic, general, different, realistic, overall.

It usually either gets used to indicate something as being before the 20th century in either setting or tone.

Source: Genre Motif / Classical
The comic strip is broadly similar to the prose books in tone and setting, but has some differences in characterisation and plot.

Source: Literature / The Moomins
Smallville is the original Superboy comics with a Hotter and Sexier tone and the setting changed from the 1950s to the Turn of the Millennium (The Present Day when the series was made).

Source: Setting Update

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