Setting Notes

Understanding Setting

I. Setting--It is the _________ and____________of a story’s action. The setting can also include _______________ ,_________________ ,_________________, and ____________________ elements.

A. Parts of Setting

• 1. Geographic location--includes________________, ______________, location of _________________like windows in a room (Alfred Hitchcock).

• 2. Character’s _____________and daily way of _____________.

• 3. Time or period when action takes place:_____________period (Elizabethan or Civil War), ________________of year, or_______________.

• 4. General environment of characters:_____________________ and ________________ conditions.

• 5. Verisimilitude--__________________portrayed settings can give a story a kind of _________________or believability.

B. Purposes of Setting

• 1. Create_______________--a general feeling or_________________.

• 2. Be a significant element of _________________.

• 3. Used to _______________something about the _______________.

Vocabulary Local Color--the use of ______________details describing the _______________, dress, _______________ and scenery associated with a particular region.

The purpose of local color is to suggest the unique flavor of a specific locale. Examples: TexMex, Santa Fe, the West and its deserts, the Midwest.

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