Elements of Fiction Setting Notes Jo 22 Setting

Elements of Fiction: Setting Notes Jo # 22

Setting The details of time (day, season, year), place (mood, imagery, sensory details, rooms, buildings, scenery, furniture, clothing, etc. ), and social circumstances (customs, time period, fashions, ways of thinking or speaking, etc. ) that create a world for characters.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit; hole, and that means comfort. The Hobbit To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover. The Grapes of Wrath

Mood The words (imagery, sensory detail, adjectives, adverbs, etc. ) the writer chooses that create an overall feeling in a text.

Jo #23: Answer one question for your Outside Reading What mood does the setting of your book create? How might the author want you to feel about the story? What does a certain setting say about one of your characters? How does he/she respond to his/her environment? Is there anything symbolic about the setting of your book? Does the setting foreshadow (hint that something is about to happen) anything?