AP English Literature:: Unit 2 - Setting Environment Context

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*The physical location, historical era, cultural environment, and social conditions in which a narrative's events take place.*

**A)** Setting
**B)** Atmosphere
**C)** Milieu
**D)** Topos

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*The prevailing emotional feeling or tone created in the reader by descriptive setting details, weather, and sensory imagery.*

**A)** Atmosphere / Mood
**B)** Tone
**C)** Voice
**D)** Theme

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*Attributing human emotions, moods, or responses to inanimate nature or weather to mirror a character's internal turmoil (e.g., weeping rain at a funeral).*

**A)** Pathetic Fallacy
**B)** Personification
**C)** Anthropomorphism
**D)** Zoomorphism

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*The specific socioeconomic class, cultural institutions, moral conventions, and societal norms that form a character's everyday environment.*

**A)** Social Milieu
**B)** Physical Topography
**C)** Macrocosm
**D)** Chronotope

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*A small, self-contained community or setting (e.g., an island in *Lord of the Flies*) that reflects the larger world and universal human condition.*

**A)** Microcosm vs. Macrocosm
**B)** Local Color vs. Universalism
**C)** Utopia vs. Dystopia
**D)** Setting vs. Plot

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*The intrinsic interconnectedness of spatial and temporal relationships in literature (how time and space fuse into a concrete artistic whole).*

**A)** Chronotope
**B)** Milieu
**C)** Zeitgeist
**D)** Topos

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*The general intellectual, moral, cultural, and spiritual climate or 'spirit of the age' characterizing a specific historical period.*

**A)** Zeitgeist
**B)** Chronotope
**C)** Verisimilitude
**D)** Anachronism

Which literary setting concept, atmospheric device, or spatial environmental technique is described below?

*The appearance or illusion of reality and truth in a fictional work through plausible setting details, authentic dialogue, and consistent rules.*

**A)** Verisimilitude
**B)** Suspension of Disbelief
**C)** Allegory
**D)** Surrealism