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**[UNIT 2: CREATIVE WRITING FICTION]** ------------- **FICTION** ------------- - - ---------------------------------------------- **[PRINCIPAL TYPES OF FICTION]** ---------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------------- **[GENRES OF FICT...

**[UNIT 2: CREATIVE WRITING FICTION]** ------------- **FICTION** ------------- - - ---------------------------------------------- **[PRINCIPAL TYPES OF FICTION]** ---------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------------- **[GENRES OF FICTION]** ------------------------------------- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. -------------------------- **LESSON 1: CHARACTERS** -------------------------- - - --------------------------------------- **[TYPES OF CHARACTERS]** --------------------------------------- - - - - - ----------------------------- CHARACTERS IN SHORT STORIES ----------------------------- - - - ------------------------------ STATIC VS DYNAMIC CHARACTERS ------------------------------ - --------------------------------------------------- ***"The Art of Dramatic Writing" by Lagos Egri*** --------------------------------------------------- ***THREE DIMENSIONS OF FICTIONAL WRITERS:*** **Physical** -- refers to physical dimensions such as body type, health, clothing, and movement **Sociological** -- refers to the character's name, biographical details, social status, economic status, race and ethnicity, family members and relationships, residence, education, profession, and beliefs **Psychological** -- refers to personality, speech patterns, attitudes toward self and others, hobbies and interests, talents, likes and dislikes, habits, dreams and ambitions, fears, what makes him laugh, angry, worried or stressed, his/her attitude toward the opposite sex, teachers, superiors, friends, competition, etc. ----------------------------- **LESSON 2: POINT OF VIEW** ----------------------------- - - - ------- Focus ------- - ------- Voice ------- - -------------------------------------- **[TYPES OF NARRATION]** -------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - -------------------- **LESSON 3: PLOT** -------------------- - - - - ------------------- **Foreshadowing** ------------------- - - ----------------- ***Aristotle*** ----------------- - --------------------------------------------- **[TRADITIONAL PARTS OF PLOT]** --------------------------------------------- 1. 2. 3. 4. - - -------------------- **EPISODIC PLOTS** -------------------- - - ------------------------------------------- **[FAMILIAR PLOTS EXAMPLES]** ------------------------------------------- a. story involving three people; b. c. d. -------------------------------------- **[TYPES OF CONFLICTS]** -------------------------------------- - - - - ----------- **Irony** ----------- - ***TYPES OF IRONY:*** - - - -------------------------------------- **LESSON 4: SETTING AND ATMOSPHERE** -------------------------------------- - ---------------------- ***Margaret Lucke*** ---------------------- - ----------------------------------------------- **[THREE DIMENSIONS OF SETTING]** ----------------------------------------------- - - - ---**Time** adds a fourth dimension to setting. The writer tells you whether the story happened during day or the night, rainy or sunny, today, a few months ago or two hundred years ago. --------------------------------------------------- **LESSON 5: LITERARY CONCERNS- THEME AND SYMBOL** --------------------------------------------------- - - - - ------------------------------------------------------- **[UNIT 3: CREATIVE WRITING NONFICTION]** ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- ***Joyce Carol Oates*** ------------------------- - ----------------------------- **The Genre of Nonfiction** ----------------------------- - - ------------------------------- Different Types of Nonfiction ------------------------------- A. B. C. --------------------------------------- **The Creative Nonfiction Tradition** --------------------------------------- - - -------------------------------------------- **Creative Nonfiction in the Philippines** -------------------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | **The Memoir as a Distinct Type** | | | | **of Creative Nonfiction** | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ - - ------------------------ The Early Life-Writing ------------------------ - - - --------------------------------------------- Thomas Larson: The Memoir and the Memoirist --------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------- The Personal Narrative/Memoir ------------------------------- - - - ---------------------- The Books of Memoirs ---------------------- - - - - ------------------------------- Essays/Autobigraphies/Memoirs ------------------------------- - - - - - - ----------------------- **Show, Don't Tell!** ----------------------- - - - - ------------------------------------------- **The Remembering and Remembered Selves** ------------------------------------------- - - - - - --------------------- ***Thomas Larson*** --------------------- - -------------------- ***Henry Miller*** -------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Strategies of Nonfiction Approach / Strategies of Teacchong and Writing Creative Nonfiction** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Approach ---------- - - - --------------- Point of View --------------- - - - ------ Tone ------ - - - ------- Voice ------- - - - - ----------- Structure ----------- - - - - - - - - ----------- Beginning ----------- - - - - - --------------------- The First Paragraph --------------------- - - A. - B. - C. - D. - E. - ----------------------- Rhetorical Techniques ----------------------- - - ----------- Character ----------- - - - - - -------------------------------- Concrete and Evocative Details -------------------------------- - - - - - -