Setting Practice

Setting tells you where and when a story occurs. Setting can include time and place.

Read the following passage from Alice in Wonderland:

Once in the wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar...

Which detail provides a clue where this passage takes place?

• “Once in the wood…"

• “A large blue caterpillar..”

• “...get back to her right size again...”

• “...with its arms folded”

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Setting can affect the elements of a story. For example, when setting changes, a character might change.

Read the following passage:

Malory was excited to go to the beach, but when she got there, she became annoyed. The hot sun started to burn her skin, and the sand itched her ankles and feet. Malory's sister slurped loudly on an ice cream cone. “Could you not?” Mallory snapped.

Which detail about the setting tells us that Mallory is annoyed?

• “The hot sun started to burn her skin, and the sand itched her ankles and feet..”

• “The sun twinkled in the sky, a warm yellow globe.”

• “Malory's sister slurped loudly on an ice cream cone..”

• “Mallory was excited to go to the beach...”

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Setting can shape the mood or feeling of a story. The mood can be energetic, nervous, peaceful or many other feeling words.

Which of the following settings suggest a tense and nervous mood?

• A city playground full of laughing, playing children and parents.

• A long line of people waiting for a few concert tickets.

• A river running through a quiet forest.

• An empty mall parking lot early on a Sunday morning.

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Which questions about a story will the setting answer?

• What is the author’s attitude toward the characters?

• Where and when does the story take place?

• Who are the people the story is about?

• Why and when did the author write the story?

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Setting can give clues about a story’s ________.

• time

• place

• mood

• all of the above

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Which of the following might describe the setting of a story?

• a frog and a witch

• happy and loving

• a high school in 1956

• love is stronger than fear

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What is the setting of the passage below?

One summer day, Mario the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Savannah. The light of morning crept slowly through his curtains. Mario blinked against the sunlight, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful end.

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980s

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In the passage below, what can you infer about Randolph using clues from the setting?

One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• Randolph is a mean person.

• Randolph is a prince or king.

• Randolph has an older sister.

• The setting doesn’t give us any clues about Randolph.

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If the passage below were set in a snowy park where children were playing, what could you infer?

Lena laughed loudly. “I can’t believe you did that!” she said, smiling.

• Lena might have been gently hit by a snowball.

• Lena might be lost.

• Lena might be playing a boardgame or card game.

• Lena might be talking to herself.

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"My hamster ran away last night in my bedroom and I can't find it anywhere in my house. I wonder if I'll ever see her again..."said Lilly. What is the setting in this passage?

• Lilly's bathroom

• Lilly's house

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