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1. What is Setting?
Definition If plot and action are the way fictional works answer the question What happened? and characters are the who, setting is the where and when. All action in fiction, as in the real world, takes place in a context or setting—a time and place and a social environment or milieu.
Kinds of Setting
When: Temporal
Setting
Where: Physical
Setting
General
Setting: the year(s), the region, country, or even world providing a historical
and cultural context for the action.
Particular
Settings: the specific time, the specific locales
2. Functions of
Setting
Setting is one
of the many ways we learn about characters and the chief means by which
characters and plots take on a larger historical, social, or even universal
significance.
3. Vague and
Vivid Setting
Vague Setting:
Time and Place are left vague as in archetypal settings
Vivid Setting:
the setting generating the conflicts, defining the characters, and giving the
story purpose and meaning.
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