Setting Point of View Style, Tone and Language

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2.1.3 Setting

Setting is the story’s time and place. Setting refers to the natural and artificial scenery or environment in which characters in literature live and move. Setting includes simple attributes such as climate or wall décor, it can also include complex dimensions such as the historical moment the story occupies or its social context. Because particular places and times have their own personality or emotional essence, setting is also one of the primary ways that a fiction writer establishes mood. Typically, short stories occur in limited locations and time frames, whereas novels may involve many different settings in widely varying landscapes. The detail about the setting may help to reveal a turn in the plot. Setting is often developed with narrative description, but it may also be shown with action, dialogue, or a character’s thoughts.

2.1.4 Point of View

Point of view is the position from which detail in a work of fiction are perceived and related to the readers. Point of view in fiction refers to the source and scope of the narrative voice. There are three types point of view. They are first-person point of view, second-person point of view and third-person point of view. In the first-person point of view, usually identifiable by the use of the pronoun I, a character in the story does the narration. A first-person narrator may be a major character and is often its protagonist. In the second-person point of view usually use “you”. It means the narrator has limited role in the story. Third-person point 11 of view occurs when the narrator does not take part in the story. It usually use the pronoun “he or she”.

2.1.5 Style, Tone and Language

Style is a matter of the way in which specific authors put words together under specific conditions in specific works. Style in fiction refers to the language conventions used to construct the story. A fiction writer can manipulate diction, sentence structure, phrasing, dialogue, and other aspects of language to create style. Tone refers to the attitude that the story creates toward its subject matter. Tone is contributed of a storys style and voice. While language is created of an attitude of humor or sarcasm.

2.1.6 Theme