Setting

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 * Definition:: **The Place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.


 * See also:: ** location, situation

Definition taken from (oxforddictionaries.com)


 * Examples ** from text:

1) Shirley Jackson does a great job with portraying the setting in The Lottery with, "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day, the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." This gives the audience a clear understanding of the setting of the story by how specific she gets with describing the environment of the story.

2) In four of the NPR stories, Last Hope, Story Spinner, Roosts, and Victorian Architecture all began with the same setting. "Some people swore that the house was haunted." All of these stories beginning with the same sentence give them all the same setting which takes place around a "house that is haunted."

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