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## Creative Writing - Creative writing is the artistic expression through written word. It is used to express the writer's ideas and emotions in an artistic manner. Unlike other forms of writing, it uses a language that aims to entertain and captivate the audience. - Creative works can be classifie...

## Creative Writing - Creative writing is the artistic expression through written word. It is used to express the writer's ideas and emotions in an artistic manner. Unlike other forms of writing, it uses a language that aims to entertain and captivate the audience. - Creative works can be classified as poetry, fiction and drama. - Imagery, as a general term, covers the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind and any sensory experience. It is a figurative language used to appeal to the senses through vivid descriptive language. Imagery creates mental pictures in the reader as they read the text. ### Types of Imagery - **Visual imagery** describes and labels what we can see which may include color, shapes, sizes and patterns. - **Auditory imagery** describes and defines what we can hear ranging from music to noise and to pure silence. - **Olfactory imagery** describes and identifies what we can smell which may come in fragrances or odors. - **Gustatory imagery** describes and elaborates what we can taste, extending from sweetness to saltiness. - **Tactile imagery** describes and distinguishes what we can feel or touch by merely recognizing temperature, movement and texture. - **Diction** refers to the selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values. It includes the formality of the language, the emotional content, the imagery, the specificity, and the sounds of the words. ### Types of Diction - **Formal diction** is the use of formal words in formal situations. - **Informal diction** is the use of informal words and conversation. - **Colloquial diction** is the use of common words in everyday speech which may be different in different regions or communities. - **Slang diction** is the use of words that are newly coined or even impolite. - **Figures of speech** are words or phrases used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect. The most common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, apostrophe, hyperbole, synecdoche, metonymy, oxymoron, and paradox. - **Simile** - a stated comparison (formed with "like" or "as" between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. - **Metaphor** - an implied comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. - **Onomatopoeia** - uses words that imitate sounds associated with objects or actions. - **Personification** - endows human qualities or abilities to inanimate objects or actions.