Setting Affects Characters and Plot

Setting Affects Characters and Plot

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

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Read the excerpt and answer the question.  Don't forget to include evidence with your answer.

Picking up where we left off yesterday

​Dramas or plays are split into acts which are broken down even more into scenes

​Play

​Act

​Scene

Setting in a drama!

​Time and place of the text

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​Examples:

​Chicago, present day

​Chicago, 1940

​Dallas, present day

​Dallas, 1866

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​It will affect what happens in the text!

Multiple Choice

Read the following passage:As Maribelle hurried down the street, the wind swept the snow along the sidewalk and hid her footsteps, so that it looked as if no one had passed. Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed. The whole block was eerily silent in the snowstorm, and she pulled her coat tightly around her. Maribelle had only moved here a few months before. She came because she wanted to be a singer. But right now, she was frightened.

Which detail from the passage indicates the setting?

• “Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed.”

• “But right now, she was frightened.”

• “Maribelle had only moved here a few months before.”

• “She came because she wanted to be a singer.”

​Plot in a story or drama

Events that make up the story or drama​

Multiple Choice

Setting can also affect the plot, or the events that make up the story or novel. Some plots can take place only in certain times and places.

Which option describes a plot that can only take place in a specific setting?

• A selfish child tries to be a better person.

• A ship’s captain chases a whale across the sea.

• A young woman falls in love with her family’s enemy.

• A poor, hardworking woman becomes a successful Youtuber

Multiple Choice

How does the clip’s main setting influence its plot?

• Sandy’s dome provides a realistic place for sea creatures like Spongebob and Patrick to live.

• Sandy’s dome is more fun.

• The time period explains why the characters want to live in Sandy’s dome.

• Sea creatures like Spongebob and Patrick are more likely to suffer in places with no water like Sandy’s dome.

Multiple Choice

The clip’s setting also influences events since the —

• Characters are more likely to suffer without air

• Character are able to show that they are best friends; Patrick notices his best buddy suffer and leaves to help SpongeBob.

• Characters are surrounded by water

• Character’s are unlikely to ever be friends with Sandy; She does not like either SpongeBob or Patrick

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