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❖ Fictional worlds function consistently under a set of regulated rules that pertain
to that specific setting. The setting determines what can and cannot happen.
❖ Time
➢ era, historical events that shape the history, how much is done within a
❖ Place
❖ Physics of Nature
❖ Societal fundamentals
What do they eat, treat things, what lives there, who lives there
Ask yourself about your own story first – so you can strengthen it = reader will not be
confused
Decide time (past, present, future) and then expand – flashback? Time travel ….
A Plausible Abode
❖ Besides furnishing a plausible abode for the novel’s world of feeling, place has a
good deal to do with making the characters real, that is, themselves, and keeping
them so.
➢ What do they eat, treat things, what lives there, who lives there
➢ Ask yourself about your own story first – so you can strengthen it = reader
➢ Decide time (past, present, future) and then expand – flashback? Time travel
❖ SETTING
➢ Weather
➢ Relationships
➢ What conflicts will arise for characters in this world because of the elements
of this world
➢ What does this world, society value
➢ Urban rural
Examples:
➢ North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour
when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house
of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a
square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives
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Definitions
Metaphor:
- a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is
not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is
our God.”
- something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem;
symbol.
Symbolism:
- the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a
symbolic meaning or character.
Simile:
- a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is
like a rose.” Compare metaphor.
Pathetic Fallacy:
- the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as
in the smiling skies; the angry sea.
Allegory:
- a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material
forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.