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Describing Setting

The document discusses the setting of a novel and provides examples of settings such as a hospital, school, or bedroom. It then gives instructions and examples for describing a bedroom setting, asking readers to visualize details like carpet color, lighting, and smells. Readers are tasked with using these clues to fully describe a bedroom setting without directly stating it is a bedroom.

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Describing Setting

The document discusses the setting of a novel and provides examples of settings such as a hospital, school, or bedroom. It then gives instructions and examples for describing a bedroom setting, asking readers to visualize details like carpet color, lighting, and smells. Readers are tasked with using these clues to fully describe a bedroom setting without directly stating it is a bedroom.

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Setting

Setting
• The setting of a novel is the place in which it is
set.

• Examples of setting include: a hospital, a


school, a bedroom etc.
Quiz – My Bedroom
1. What colour are your carpet/walls?
2. What does your duvet look like?
3. What is your favourite thing in your room?
4. Is it usually messy or clean?
5. What kind of lighting do you have?
Example Answers – My Bedroom
1. Cream carpet and white walls.
2. White with colourful ribbons across it. A
quilted runner along the bottom that I made
myself.
3. My big teddy bear.
4. Usually clean – but my laundry basket is
overflowing!
5. A lamp by my bedside and a white lampshade
hanging from the ceiling
Task
• Using your answers to the quiz, write a fuller
description of your room.

• Be sure to explain what you can see, hear and smell


but try to avoid stating that is a bedroom. Allow your
readers to come to the conclusion themselves.

• Use all the information in the quiz to describe your


room – and any additional detail you can think of.
Example - My Bedroom
As you walk in, the first thing you see is the enormous
grey fluffy stuffed dog on my bed. He sits upon my
soft, colourful duvet and guards my heavy wooden
bed against intruders. The room is softly lit by a lamp
on my wooden bedside table and a lampshade
hanging from the ceiling. The room smells lightly of
vanilla from the scented candle by my bedside. When
my windows are shut, the room is completely silent.
My walls are white and my carpet and curtains are
cream; zen-like and totally tranquil. Except for the
overflowing laundry basket in the corner.
Your Task
• You are going to receive a sheet of paper with a
scene on it.
• DON’T TELL ANY OTHER GROUP WHAT SCENE
YOU’VE GOT!

• You are to describe the scene in front of you


individually and without actually stating what
scene it is.
• Here’s an example….
Describing Setting - Example
A dull muttering fills the air before a hand flies up and
the room returns to silence. It is a mainly white room,
in one of those commercial mass-made buildings
where all the rooms look really similar. There is a
subtle smell of bleach in the mornings, but by mid-
afternoon, the stench of stale sweat clings to the
room. The ceiling is white and slatted with unflattering
squares of lighting glaring down on the multi-coloured
display boards. Students’ work is plastered across the
walls and the desks are littered with pens and folders.

I am describing…B104/a classroom

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