📚 Part 1: Understanding Setting

1. What is the main purpose of setting in a story?

To tell us what the characters look like

To create mood and context for the story

To explain what happens in the plot

To show dialogue between characters

2. Which literary devices help create vivid setting descriptions? (Select all that apply)

Similes and metaphors

Precise adjectives and adverbs

Sensory details (sight, sound, smell, touch)

Character names

3. Read this setting description: "The abandoned house groaned in the wind like an old man's bones, its broken shutters hanging like tired eyelids."

What mood does this setting create?

Happy and cheerful

Mysterious and spooky

Calm and peaceful

Exciting and adventurous

4. Which of these sentences uses personification to describe a setting?

The forest was very dark and quiet.

The ocean waves danced playfully on the shore.

The mountain was 500 metres tall.

The desert sand was hot and dry.

✏️ Part 2: Setting Planning

5. Think about your character from previous lessons. Where would you place them in a scene? Describe the location in one sentence:

6. Complete this sensory planning chart for your setting:

What can you SEE? _________________________________

What can you HEAR? _________________________________

What can you SMELL? _________________________________

What can you FEEL/TOUCH? _________________________________

7. What mood do you want your setting to create?

Mysterious

Peaceful

Exciting

Scary

Other: _______________

🎨 Part 3: Creative Writing Practice

8. Write a descriptive paragraph (4-6 sentences) that places your character in your chosen setting. Use sensory details and at least one simile or metaphor to create mood:

9. Self-reflection: Circle the literary devices you used in your writing:

Simile (comparing using 'like' or 'as')

Metaphor (saying something IS something else)

Personification (giving human qualities to non-human things)

Strong adjectives and adverbs

Sensory details

10. What is one thing you want to improve about your setting description for next time?