Midterm Creative Writing Review (PDF)

REVIEWER ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE LANGUAGE CREATIVE WRITING Writing – is a way of communicating 1. Imagery ideas, emotions, and information. ❑ Is a figurative...

REVIEWER ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE LANGUAGE CREATIVE WRITING Writing – is a way of communicating 1. Imagery ideas, emotions, and information. ❑ Is a figurative language used to represent objects, actions, and Types of Writing ideas in a manner that appeals Technical Writing to the senses. ❑ Writing that conveys clear, ❑ Imagery creates mental pictures specific information. in the reader as he/she reads ❑ Aims to instruct, inform, or the text. explain. ❑ It uses vivid descriptive language e.g Manuals, Reports, Proposals, Instruction to add depth to the work with the ❑ ensures understanding and use of senses to describe. functionality. VISUAL IMAGERY CHARACTERISTICS Using sense of sight 1. Clarity and precision: No room for AUDITORY IMAGERY ambiguity. Using sense of hearing OLFACTORY IMAGERY 2. Formal tone: Professional language. Using sense of smell 3. Structured format: Organized GUSTATORY IMAGERY headings, lists, visuals. Using sense of taste TACTILE IMAGERY Imaginative Writing Using sense of touch ❑ Creative expression through CATEGORIES of IMAGERY stories, poems, and more. LITERAL Imagery -simple and direct description ❑ Aims to entertain, inspire, or FIGURATIVE Imagery evoke emotions. -the description may involve e.g Fiction, Poetry, Drama rhetorical devices and/or symbolic ❑ fosters creativity and cultural expression CHARACTERISTICS 2. Figures of Speech 1. Use of figurative language: Rhetorical device that uses creative Metaphors, similes, imagery. language to convey meaning in a non-literal way. 2. Focus on storytelling: Plot, Simile - creates comparison between characters, themes. two things by using the words 'like', 'as' 3. Freedom in style: Flexible structure and tone. or 'than'. Metaphor-creates a comparison by stating that one thing is another. Personification - Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea Onomatopoeia - Uses words that imitates sound with object and actions Apostrophe - Addressing an absent person or abstract thing, inanimate, or inexistent.  Hyperbole - Is the use of exaggeration IMPERATIVE - A sentence used to for the purpose of emphasis give a command. Alliteration - An initial consonant sound SENTENCE TYPES BY STRUCTURE is repeated SIMPLE - One independent clause. No commas separate two Euphemism - uses figurative language compound elements. to replace an offensive or unpleasant COMPOUND - Two independent word or phrase. clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, a conjunctive adverb Irony - The intended meaning is the or a semicolon. opposite of that expressed by the COMPLEX - One dependent clause words (headed by a subordinating VERBAL IRONY conjunction or a relative pronoun) -What is said is opposite to what is joined to an independent clause. meant. COMPOUND-COMPLEX - Two SITUATIONAL IRONY independent clauses joined to one or more dependent clauses -There’s a contrast between what is expected to happen and what SENTENCE LENGTH actually happens. TELEGRAPHIC - 5 words or less DRAMATIC IRONY SHORT – 5 to10 words -When the audience knows MEDIUM 15 to 20 words something that the characters LONG - 30+ words do not. Oxymoron - Incongruous or ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS ANAPHORA - The repetition of contradictory terms appear side by words or phrases at the beginning side. “He is perfectly imperfect! “ of successive clauses. 3. DICTION EPIPHORA - The repetition of words or phrases at the end of successive ❑ Choice of words ❑ employed to communicate ideas and clauses. impressions, to evoke emotions, and to convey an author’s view of the truth to ANTITHESIS - These sentences position opposite ideas using a the reader. Slang refers to a group of parallel grammatical structure to recently coined words often create contrast. used in informal situations Dialect is a nonstandard INVERTED ORDER - These types of sentences switch the placement of subgroup of a language with it’s own vocabulary and the verb before the subject as if in a question. grammatical features. POLYSYNDETON - When 4. SYNTAX conjunctions like 'and', 'or' and 'but' ❑ Arrangement of words to create are used repeatedly in rapid sentence succession. SENTENCE TYPES BY FUNCTION ASYNDETON - Conjunctions are left DECLARATIVE - A sentence used to out deliberately to create a more make a statement. dramatic effect, speed up the INTERROGATIVE - A sentence used rhythm or pace or emphasizes the to ask a question gravity of a situation. EXCLAMATORY - A sentence used to make an exclamation.