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Read the passage below from William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."
"It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps - an eyesore among eyesores."
What does the setting accomplish in the passage above? See answer. This description helps the readers picture a decaying Mississippi town in the post-Civil War South. The readers also learn about Miss Emily's resistance to change.
Now, you create passages that contain these elements of setting.
1. Element: morning and ocean.
2. Element: a church and a river.
3. Element: roses.
4. Element: inside of a room.
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