Definition:
The setting is the where and when of a novel, story, poem or play. Eudora Welty said, "Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?..."
Also Known As: put, set, place, pose, position, lay, move, displace
Common Misspellings: seting
Examples:
The setting for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is roughly 1835-1845 (before the Civil War). The novel takes place at various locations along the Mississippi River.
