Setting Flashcards
Time and place in the fiction, drama, poetry
setting
“Araby”
James Joyce
“The Birth-Mark,”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Hills Like White Elephants,”
Ernest Hemingway
“The Yellow Wall-Paper,”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Jury of Her Peers.
Susan Glaspell
When the action depicted in the work supposedly took place=temporal setting
Plot time
When the author originally created or published a literary work
Author time
When the narrator in a work of fiction supposedly narrates the story
Narrator time
When the actual reader reads the work
Reader/audience time
Plot time is earlier than the time the work was written
Historical fiction
time + place of whole work
general setting
Establish mood, situation, and character
Suggest conflict or theme
Functions of setting
The place in which action unfolds
Spatial setting
time/plot time
Temporal setting
