ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Heredity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: John Pierce

Document Summary

Elements of setting: place, natural (landscape, seascape) or artificial (city, house, room, time, hour, year, century, past, present, weather, atmosphere. The dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a literary work (kennedy 164) The total effect conveyed by the author"s use of language, images, and physical setting (kennedy 164) It fosters in the readers expectations as to the course of events, whether happy or (more commonly) terrifying or disastrous (abrams 17) Purpose of setting: setting as, background or context, antagonist, atmosphere or mood, revealing character, organization, reinforcing theme. Structure of a field of wheat : pre-storm section has two parts: Quarrel between children and picking of peas (11-15) This section focusses on perception of nature and the benevolent nature, but one that is difficult to transform and is always potentially threatening: the storm. Obviously, we get the destructive picture of nature: aftermath. See destruction, but signs of the indifference of nature.