How does setting affect a literary work? It determines the way a poem is paced. It plays upon the conflict in the piece. It dictates the amount of dialogue used in the piece. It directly affects the mood of the piece.

It directly affects the mood.

Explanation:

There are two ways to answer this question. You can either use the prcess of elimination to decide that the only answer that has to do with mood is the one chosen. Another way is to know that since mood is how the reader feels when reading the story, the setting is one of the main ways used to set a mood or atmosphere of a piece of writing.