ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story.

Detailed explanation-2: -The setting of a story is the context in a scene or story that describes the elements in which a story is taking place, including time, place, and environment. Each component in story setting helps to build the narrative’s mood, plot, and character development.

Detailed explanation-3: -The setting of a story is a literary device that establishes when and where its plot takes place. Also known as backdrop, a story setting can be drawn from imagination or based on historic events, as well as geographical locations in the real world (such as a specific city, or the house of a character).

Detailed explanation-4: -setting, in literature, the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.

Detailed explanation-5: -Setting: the time and place of the action in a work of fiction, poetry, or drama. The spatial setting is the place or places in which action unfolds, the temporal setting is the time; thus, the same as plot time.