Setting

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?

Which of the following could be a possible setting in a story?

• The princess and the frog.

• Love is stronger than fear.

• Ran as fast as he could.

• A winter night in 1956.

1. 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 sitting on the top with its arms folded...

Which detail from the text provides a clue to the place where this passage takes place?

• Once in the wood...

• A large blue caterpillar sitting...

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

• 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 1980's

Where does it take place?

• friend's hosue
• your house 
• the zoo 
• the park 

When does it take place?

• winter
• summer
• fall
• spring