SETTING DEVELOPMENT

You may want to take notes as these are terms that will be on the Short

Story Final Exam

Three Elements of Setting Development

• Place • Time • Environment

Place City, state, country,

castle, cottage, playground, ship,

mountain, stadium, etc.

TimeInclude clues that let us know it is

afternoon, evening, the future, colonial

times, or clock time.

EnvironmentMight include details

that describe the weather, the noise level, or darkness.

Setting

Details

Explicit Details

Perfectly clear, definite, directly expressed

Example:“Can’t see it,” remarked Rainsford,

trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.

Implicit Details

Implied, to involve or indicate by inference, to express indirectly

Example:“Here on my preserve on this island,”

he said, in the same slow tone, “I hunt a more dangerous game.”

“The choice rests entirely with you. But may I not venture to suggest that you will find my idea of sport more diverting than Ivan’s?”

He had never slept in a better bed,Rainsford decided.