Setting

Setting

A review of the importance of setting

Open Ended

Does a setting describe how something happens or where it happens? Explain. Use complete sentences and proper grammar.

Open Ended

In a story about genie in a bottle who belongs to a prince who lives in a beautiful castle, what is the setting? Explain. Use complete sentences and proper grammar.

Open Ended

How does the last stanza of Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" change the setting of the poem? Explain. Use complete sentences and proper grammar.

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with; pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

Open Ended

Explain how the setting in Peter Pan is similar to the setting in Oliver Twist. Use complete sentences and proper grammar.

Open Ended

Explain how the setting in Peter Pan is different than the setting in Oliver Twist. Use complete sentences and proper grammar.

Multiple Choice

True or false: If two authors describe a similar setting, like visiting the ocean, they'll say pretty much the same thing.

• True

• False

Open Ended

List three features that a setting can include.

Multiple Choice

True or false: Another word for setting is "surroundings."

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or false: If two stories are set in the same place, you can expect pretty similar things to happen.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Paraphrase the setting of the following passage from At The Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

Together we stepped out to stand in silent contemplation of a landscape at once weird and beautiful. Before us a low and level short stretch down to a silent sea. As far as the eye could reach the surface of the water was dotted with countless tiny isles - some of towering, barren, granted rock - others resplendent in gorgeous trappings of tropical vegetation, myriad starred with the magnificent splendor of vivid blooms.