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"Literature Terms Setting, Foreshadowing, and etc." Quizlet. Web. 12 June 2010. "Setting." Wikipedia. Last modified 25 May 2010. Web. 12 June 2010. Resources About Setting1). Rozelle, Ron. Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting. Google Books. Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH, 2005. Web. 13 June 2010. Rozelle discusses learned that 'Good Writing is transcendental. It rises above time and place.' Throughout the book, Rozelle discussed the importance of description and setting and learning new techniques to "show, tell, and combine the two." In each chapter, Rozelle includes excerpts from many well known authors to show examples of his lessons. At the end of the book, he included a Quick Reference Guide. Rozelle defines setting as the "people, places, events, and actions. 2. Dera, Deborah. “The Importance of Setting in Children’s Literature.” Associated Content. 19 August 2007. Web. 13 June 2010. The main purpose of the website is to explain how the literary element, setting is important in children’s literature. The examples given here are for children’s literature however, they can be applied to regular adult literature as well. Setting helps create the mood of the story. It is important to make sure the setting of a story is clear in order for readers to better understand why certain characters may be in some scenes while others are not. There are many elements that can make up setting such as description of language, dress, and lifestyle. Understanding the literary term can help readers understand the story better. If there were random characters in each scene and the setting was not properly described then it may be difficult for readers to interpret the meaning the author is trying to convey. 3. "Describing Setting." Literature What Makes a Good Short Story. Annenberg Media. Web. 13 June 2010. What learner.org has to say about setting is to the point. It says that would the story still be the same had it been set some place else? Fiction depends solely on the place / setting for it's life. Writers and Authors write about the world that they know. In their writing they are responsible for helping the reader imagine the place by being very descriptive. Many authors may choose to leave quite a few details for the reader to imagine. They paint the picture and leave the little stuff to the reader. 4. Foll Scott. “Setting and Meaning.” Aliscot.com. Web. 13 June 2010. This website breaks down the meaning of setting in reading and writing as well as in our person lives. Setting is important because it plays a role in our personalities or the personalities of characters in a book. Time is an important part of setting and can be broken down into for different types: clock time, calendar time, seasonal time and historical time. Place of the setting can also be nonphysical such as cultural influences, education social standing etc. Setting can great the mood for the entire story and so is important to make sure that in order to make a story realistic and believable it must be set in the right location and time. The information is important to the all of the time periods I am researching because the time period is one part of the setting of the stories that are written in each time period. This website gave me a more in depth information on setting and many more levels to consider as I research my time periods. I will use this information as I look into the time periods and the author’s text to a feel for the settings of the stories. Scott Foll has a PH.D in English and is a retired tenured teacher at Amarillo College which gives him the credentials to write this article. 5. Harris, Robert. "Evaluating Internet Research Sources." Virtual Salt. 4 Jan. 2002. Web. 9 June 2007 <http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm>. The main purpose of the website is to provide readers with literary definitions, listing the terms in alphabetical order with descriptions underneath. The website defines setting as the total environment for the action of a fictional work. This includes the time period, place, historical milieu, and “any social, political or spiritual realities.” The website is credible because the author is associated with a reputable site, Vanguard University. 6. "Setting (scene)." WordNet. Princeton University, 4 May 2010. Web. 14 June 2010. <http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o1=1&o6=&o4=&o3=&s=scene>. This website is a lexical database of English, where nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are grouped together by the relationships they share. In one of the definitions provided, setting is described as "the context and environment in which something is set.” Another applicable definition is “the place where some action occurs.” This is a credible source because the website is associated with the reputable Princeton University and undergoes constant updates to remain current. 7. "Setting." Oxford English Dictionary: The Definitive Record of the English Language. Oxford University Press, 2008. Web. 5 June 2008. < http://dictionary.oed.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/cgi/entry/50221018?query_type=word&queryword=setting&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=rb8O-Fu9svJ-10467&result_place=2 > This site is from a reputable source, the Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford University Press. The site defines words and gives each possible meaning of a word. Though it is not an exclusively literary dictionary, it does define “setting” as the environment in which a story takes place. Following each definition is examples of setting in a sentence, demonstrating the appropriate context of the definitions given. 8. “"Setting." Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, 2008. Web. 5 June 2008. <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9125342>. This website is used to view articles from the encyclopedia. It defines setting as the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place. It is important for all literary works to have a setting so that the reader can understand the storyline and what the writer is talking about. This source is credible because it is an accredited site used as a trusted source for information on various topics. 10. "Setting." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2008. Web. 14 June 2008. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/setting>. Merriam-Webster is a publisher of language reference works. This website provides online access for a dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish/English dictionary, and a Medical Dictionary. According to the dictionary setting is defined as “the time, place and circumstances in which something occurs or develops.” This is a very credible source because it has been a trusted dictionary since 1847, undergoing constant updates under the supervision of various editors. 11. "Describing Setting." Literature. Annenberg Media, 2007. Web. 6 June 2007. <http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/read/setting1.html>. This website gives a brief description about setting, describing the importance of setting in every story and how this affects everything else that happens. This website stresses the role of setting in literature so much, it claims “Fiction depends for its life on place.” The site describes setting as the sights, sounds, colors, and textures that are compiled to paint an image in the reader’s mind. More concretely, the location of the story’s actions and the time in which it occurs is their other definition of setting. This website is also helpful because it links to other setting resources such as “What Setting Tells Us” and “Describing Setting.” This is a credible source because it is used as a teacher resource guide throughout the school system. 12. "Setting." Answers.com. Answers Corporation, 2008. Web. 24 June 2008. <http://www.answers.com/topic/setting>. This website is a Question and Answer website used for reference answers. When searching setting, Answers.com transports you to the dictionary, where it gives multiple definitions. The most relevant definitions with respect to literature are as follows: The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background, or the time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place. This is an easy to navigate reliable website that offers a concise definition of setting as a literary element. It is a credible source as all the entries are cited. The dictionary this site uses is The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, which is a trusted name and resource. 13: "Setting." Encyclopedia Britannica.2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 26 June 2008 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9125342>. This article discusses the importance of setting in literature. It also provide a number of examples where setting played an important role. I believe this article to be credible because the Encyclopedia Britanica is an exellent and well-known academic resource. 14. “Setting.” Literature. Annenberg Media, 2008. 26 June 2008 < http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/read/setting1.html >. This website gives a general definition of setting as it applies to literature. Setting is “the location of a story’s actions.” It says that setting is created by language, and that it is up to the author how much of the setting lies in the reader’s imagination. This website will help me in my reading of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter because setting is crucial to the novel. It will also help me in my general knowledge of what setting means and how it is created by an author. This website is credible because it has a publisher and a publishing date. 15. "Literary Devices." Mr. Braiman's English Online. Web. 13 June 2010. This site is dedicated purely to defining a range of literary terms. It gives a useful description of setting: "The time and place where a story occurs". It also has two examples that have bold words that they suggest a reader look for when trying to decipher the setting of a text. Additionally it recommended to look for specific dates/years to get a feel for the setting the author is trying to portray. Understanding this literary term is helpful when reading Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl because if you look at the years, which Harriet mentions, you can imagine the condition she was in. It's also helpful in understanding "Clotel; or, the President's Daughter" because Brown has a few inconsistencies with dates but understanding the setting he is trying to portray helps the story make sense. This site is credible because the author is an English teacher at Brooklyn High School of the Arts. 16. "Novel (Scene Or Setting)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Web. 4 June 2007. The page is an offered database to the public containing many various resources and information on many different topics, and issues. Its a credible web page; its updated, and contributing affiliates of the page, and the page itself and information offered, are licensed and governed by copyrights and patents. The page defines setting as an important element which determines the action and characters. In addition, setting is not only the location of the story, it includes the time, atmosphere in which the action takes place, for example the weather and the object of the senses (smell, scenery, noise) present. The page helps in analyzing one of the selected text for the Puritanism period by giving a reader an understanding of not only focusing on the location of the story but also on the atmosphere and simple elements of the surroundings. For example, in analyzing Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue," it would be difficult (nearly impossible) to discover the location of the story taking place because she does not mention a specific locale. Therefore, one would focus and trust her tone, sight, words that identify her emotions, and other significant elements that would help a reader point out or get an idea of a "setting." 17. "Setting (literature)." Wikipedia. Last Modified on 25 May 2010. Web. 13 June 2010. The main point of this website is to give an indepth description of the literary term setting. It provides information such as the roles of setting as well as the types of setting. It lists 16 different types of settings, and then provides a link that further describes each one. The website defines setting as the time, location, circumstances, and characters, everything in which a story takes place, and provides the main backdrop and mood for a story. Understanding this literary term helps me better understand the texts that I chose for this deadline because it helps me to develop images and time lines of the events that took place in them. This was a credible website because it provided numerous links to further readings, and it also included a separate section for footnotes and references. - 18."Setting." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Web. 25 June 2009 . This website main purpose is to define words according to Websters dictionary. Websters is very reliable because it has preserved definition overtime, even older English definitions from long ago. Websters has six definitions for setting, but I think the most useful is number one: "the manner, position, or direction in which something is set." This is talking about the background or backdrop setting and can be applied to literature specifically. This resource helps me better understand stand setting especially in writing poetry. 19. “Setting.” The RSCC Online Writing Lab. Roane State Community College. Last Modified on October 2004. Web. 13 June 2010. The purpose of this site is to provide a glossary of terms for English students. It defines setting as: “The place or location of the action, the setting provides the historical and cultural context for characters. It often can symbolize the emotional state of characters.” During the pre-Civil War “Critique on Slavery,” the “setting” in America was dividing into north and south. Whitman and Longfellow were both northerners. Their beliefs made them write about the frontier parts of the country where it was hoped that abolitionism would establish. Setting has importance in Longfellow’s “The Slave’s Dream” because the African paradise in the dream contrasts the realities of the Deep Southern rice patty plantation. Whitman’s “I Sing the Body Electric” has a section where the expert auctioneer of the New Orleans market is outshone by the poet; the poet can sell more slaves because he can appeal to the buyers’ connection to the deeper, spiritual beauty of the God-force within the slaves’ bodies. In this way, Whitman makes the sale of slaves a crime that exceeds government and nation; slavery should unite the country because it is a crime onto God and humanity. This is a credible site, hosted by a college as part of its online writing lab. 20. "Setting.” Encarta. Microsoft. Web. 25 Jun 2009. The Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia has many definitions for setting. Predominantly, setting is the "the surroundings or environment in which something exists or takes place". Setting can also apply to the "period in time or the place in which events of a story are said to occur". Setting has a huge effect on literature. A good description of setting can change the way a story is interpreted. If a setting is described in thorough detail, it allows the reader to get a mental picture of where the events in a book are taking place. The more detail given, the more accurately the reader will interpret what the author was trying to convey. | Definition LinksMeriam-WebsterBritannica  A Long Time Ago... Digital image. The Beginning of the End. 22 Mar. 2010. Web. 9 June 2010. <http://dogcowuk.tumblr.com/post/465819461/lost-wars-a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far-far>. |
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| gunmacht | Resource 19 | 0 | Jul 2 2009, 1:33 AM EDT by gunmacht | ||
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In regards to setting, this site gives a short basic definition. Overall, this is a great resource because it provides a lot of information about the elements of literature. It seems like a reliable source as it comes from a community college website.
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| gunmacht | Resource 18 | 0 | Jul 2 2009, 1:31 AM EDT by gunmacht | ||
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Merriam-Webster dictionary is obviously a reliable source. It provides 6 different definitions for setting. I think this source is useful if you want to know the basic definition of what a setting is, but that's about it.
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| dcnarducci | Resource #17 | 0 | Jul 1 2009, 5:22 PM EDT by dcnarducci | ||
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I like this source because it described the importance setting plays in a text. I do not think it is credible because it does not have a clearly stated author or editor.
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