"establish the setting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when describing the time, place, and atmosphere in which a story or scene takes place. Example: The author does an excellent job of establishing the setting in the opening chapter, transporting the reader back to the bustling streets of 19th century London with vivid descriptions of the foggy, gas-lit city.
Once the interface was determined a second computer-generated random sequence was applied to establish the setting.
So establish the setting first, make it clear why it's funny, throw in a surprise and get out.
If you think of your unfolding novel as a film being privately screened inside your head, it will help you to establish the setting with enough but not too much description, like the mise-en-scène of film, and to vary the pace of the narrative.
Using the five categories of evidence provided by the NPF, evidence can be used to help establish the setting of the narrative (e.g., time, history, and politics) or the problem definition and causality (e.g., data on the severity, causes, or consequences of a problem).
Angelou has said that she used this technique so that each book would stand alone and to establish the setting in Traveling Shoes—"who she was and what she was doing in Africa".
Debbie Liebling, who served as a South Park producer at the time of the episode's broadcast, said the volcano erupting in South Park helped establish the setting as a place where "anything can happen".
From the thermodynamic point of view, the obtained exothermic and positive entropic values establish the set of favourable results for the thermodynamic of CN-POR/BBT CN-POR/BBTions.
A date and various details — a violoncello, a maid, the anatomist's isolation from county society — established the setting as late-18th-century England.
Britannica Classics: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, part 1Editor and anthologist Clifton Fadiman introducing dramatized scenes from Dickens's Great Expectations, establishing the setting, characters, shape, and themes of this classic novel.
There's a wealth of information in these simple sentences.The judicious use of two foreign words — "Ata" and "yuan" — quickly establishes the setting; we may not yet know where we are, but we know we're not "here".
Establishing the setting and characters at the beginning of a data story is important as well as highlighting how something has changed in the environment that introduces a new problem or opportunity (inciting incident).
