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Question: Literary term for when setting reflects the mood?

Literary term for when setting reflects the mood?

What's the literary term for when the setting reflects the mood, like how it's always raining during funerals in movies?

Date Posted: January 25, 2008 Tagged Under: literary term . mood . setting
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What comes to mind is allegory. See if the definition below makes sense...

Allegory – a story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. An allegory may be conceived at a metaphor that is extended into a structured system.