1. Explain and illustrate the three historic stages in the evolution of the element of setting.
2. What did Ruskin mean by “the pathetic fallacy”?
3. What are the modern uses of the element of setting?
4. Explain the process of attaining atmosphere, or local color.
5. Adduce original instances of emotional harmony, emotional contrast, and irony in setting.
SUGGESTED READING
Robert Louis Stevenson: “A Gossip on Romance.”
Bliss Perry: “A Study of Prose Fiction”––Chapter VII, on “The Setting.”
Read at greater length those passages of famous fiction from which have been selected the illustrative quotations cited in this chapter.