2. Three Elements of Setting Development
⢠Place
⢠Time
⢠Environment
Setting
Place
City, state, country, Time Environment
castle, cottage, Include clues that Might include details
playground, ship, let us know it is that describe the
mountain, stadium, afternoon, evening, weather, the noise
etc. the future, colonial level, or darkness.
times, or clock time.
3. Details
Explicit Details Implicit Details
Perfectly clear, definite, directly Implied, to involve or indicate by
expressed inference, to express indirectly
Example: Example:
âCanât see it,â remarked Rainsford, trying âHere on my preserve on this island,â
to peer through the dank tropical he said, in the same slow tone, âI
night that was palpable as it pressed hunt a more dangerous game.â
its thick warm blackness in upon the
yacht.
âThe choice rests entirely with you.
An apprehensive night crawled slowly by But may I not venture to suggest
like a wounded snake, and sleep did that you will find my idea of sport
not visit Rainsford, although the more diverting than Ivanâs?â
silence of a dead world was on the
jungle.
He had never slept in a better bed,
Rainsford decided.