Inna Idris: Setting in the Story World

Inna Idris, VSPU

Setting in the Story World

All events enacted by the characters happen in a particular place and time. This spatial and temporal location of the events in the plot is called the setting. The setting also contributes to the narrative by providing the context of the action.

In narrative time we must take into consideration three elements, namely: 1. the order of the narrative; 2. the speed of the narrative; 3. the frequency of events.

Order is the relation between the sequencing of events in the story and their arrangement in the narrative. A narrator may choose to present the events in the order they occurred, that is, chronologically, or he can recount them out of order. More here