Setting
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put (something) down, to rest.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: that disappears below the horizon
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set. A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry. A standard level or placement that a knob or control is placed at, for example, the volume setting on a television.
Example sentence: The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Scene
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The location of an event that attracts attention.The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.An element of fiction writing.A social environment consisting of a large informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity.
Example sentence: The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.