The phrase "plot setting" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the time and place in which a story takes place. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as in literary analysis, creative writing, and book reviews. Example: The author skillfully described the plot setting, transporting the reader to a small town in the 1800s with vivid details of the bustling market and the rustic cottages dotting the countryside.
Hawkes was little interested in plot, setting, or theme.
She presents the reader with only the faintest gradations of plot, setting, and character development, the better to focus attention on the narrator's voice.
The letter should include all of the main points presented in their proposal, such as the show's plot, setting, cast of characters and educational objective.
Mainstream filmmakers are reluctant to tinker with religious sensibilities, and even 1960s musicals like "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" took few liberties with plot, setting or characters.
In the first experiment of its kind some of Europe's leading scientists are training their computers to create a winning musical, including the premise, characters, plot, setting, structure, and much of the music and lyrics.
"It was a dark and stormy night," begins Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel "Paul Clifford," which goes on to invoke torrential rain, gusting wind, guttering lamplight, and rattling rooftops: weather as plot, setting, star, and supporting cast of what is, by broad consensus, the worst sentence in the history of English literature.
"I am confident I have support and people have seen through the plot set up against me," he said.
In November 2014, on a vast game farm on the South Africa-Botswana border, a yellow excavator annihilated an overgrown plot set by a river.
It could just as easily be the solution to a crime plot set in a country house, or a factory, or a school.
Lust, Caution is an erotic espionage drama, a little like Hitchcock's Notorious in its plot, set in Japanese-occupied China in the second world war.
A federal judge denied bail on Tuesday for two Muslim men charged in a fake plot set up by federal investigators to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat.
