1. What is 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: tie setting generating the conflicts, defining the characters, and giving the story purpose and meaning.