Setting is the time and place in which a story takes place.
The purposes of setting are:
- to create problems for the characters
- to provide a background for the events and characters
- to help understand the characters and their conflicts
- Types of Imagery
- Kinds of Description
- Inanimate object (plane, boat, bus, spaceshift)
Kinds of Imagery:
Visual - what the reader should see
Auditory - what the reader should hear
Kinesthetic - what the reader should feel externally
Emotion - what the reader should feel internally or remember
Olfactory - what the reader smells
Kinds of Description:
- Author states a fact in description
- "It is cold"
- Author states a fact through action, thought, or dialogue
- Reader has to infer through clues
- "She jumped up and down to keep warm."
- Personification: Give non human objects human characteristics
- The deck cried out, the sun peeked over the hills, the city
- Onomatopoeia: Give sounds words
- The clock went "tick-tock", "Screeech!!!"
screamed the car
- Simile: Comparing an item to another item using like
- The clouds looked like puffs of cotton. The road was as long
as the Nile River.
- Metaphor: Saying an item is another item.
- The classroom is a dungeon. My room is a sanctuary.
- Repetition: Repeat an item to emphasize importance.
- My room is small. It is smaller than a closet. A dwarf would
be squished. I sometimes wonder if I'm entering my room or my