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“Setting is not merely scenery against which the significant takes place,” Burroway writes. “It is part and parcel of the significant; it is heritage and culture; it is identity or exile, and the writer’s choice of detail directs our understanding and our experience of it.”
Complete all four of the following prompts. Your purpose here is not to write finished and perfectly polished pieces, but to practice creating setting in your writing; however, the slightly informal nature of this assignment should not be interpreted as permission to write inattentively. Creative works you complete for the journal activity may be significantly expanded and revised for later work.
1 Choose one of the clichés below . Using concrete details (imagery) instead of the words of the cliché, create a fictional setting that you develop in at least three paragraphs of no fewer than 30 words total. a dark and stormy night raining cats and dogs freeze to death scorching hot fragrant as a new-mown lawn
- Select a scene from your childhood and describe it in three paragraphs: one long shot, one middle shot, one close-up. How much can you show the reader about the feeling of your surroundings? Think of feeling both in its sensory definition (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and its emotional definition (how the setting reflects your state of mind as a child). Your paragraphs should be approximately 30wo ds.
- Using what you have learned about voice, pick a character who belongs to a certain place—a preacher, a prisoner, a coach, a nurse, a Little Leaguer, or the like—and write a poetic monologue in which that place is evoked through the voice. Remember that a monologue is a speech for one voice. Your poem should be at least 20lines
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