Creative Writing Reviewer Quarter 1
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This document reviews creative writing, examining imaginative genres like poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction. It also covers the creative writing process, formal and informal diction, figurative language, and literary devices. The document is aimed at secondary school students.
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**CREATIVE WRITING REVIEWER ** **QUARTER 1 -- EDITED NA TO HA** **LESSON 1: IMAGINATIVE WRITING AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITING ** **IMAGINATIVE WRITING**- imaginative or creative writing is writing as an art (Stegner, n.d.). It may be literary or non-literary. - A literary imaginative genre: **p...
**CREATIVE WRITING REVIEWER ** **QUARTER 1 -- EDITED NA TO HA** **LESSON 1: IMAGINATIVE WRITING AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITING ** **IMAGINATIVE WRITING**- imaginative or creative writing is writing as an art (Stegner, n.d.). It may be literary or non-literary. - A literary imaginative genre: **poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction.** - A non-literary imaginative text may come inform of signage or advertisement. - Academic Context- literary text to be assessed by teacher. - Professional Context- publishing text and creating scripts for plays. **THE NATURE OF IMAGINATIVE WRITING ** It is related to Aristotle's catharsis and intendent for specific group number of people. **POETRY** - an art were humans give me "rhythmic expression to their most perceptions of the world, themselves, and the relation of two" (Harmon and Holmann, 1996) **FICTION**-is narrative writing drawn from the imagination rather than history of fact **DRAMA**- is a story told in action by actors who impersonate the characters. **CREATIVE NONFICTION** - genre that uses literary styles and techniques to create genuine on real events. **OTHER FORMS OF WRITING ** **ACADEMIC WRITING**- to inform, provide evidence, and to persuade. **PROFESSIONAL WRITING**- people that affect business organization. **TECHNICAL WRITING** - understand a process or a procedure. THE CREATIVE WRITING PROCESS 1\. GENERATE AN IDEA 2\. CREATE A DRAFT 3\. REVISE 4\. EDIT AND PROOFREAD **EDIT**- act of fixing writing issues like sentence construction, plot consistency etc. **PROOFREAD** - checking for errors, such as spelling and punctuations. ** 5. PUBLISH ** **LESSON 2: FORMAL AND INFORMAL WORDS IN CREATIVE WRITING ** ** ** **DICTION** - also known as word of choice makes literature a distinct body from other forms of writing. It helps the writer to become accurate, precise, concrete, and appropriate. **ACCURACY**- as the careful use of words to express meaning. **PRECISION-** exactness of the words. **APPROPRIATENESS**- capacity of words to achieve the purpose of text. CONCRETENESS- capacity of the words to stimulate the senses of readers. **TYPES OF DICTION ** **FORMAL DICTION** - use of sophisticated, professional, and sublime language. **INFORMAL DICTION** - is the use of natural, realistic, and conversational language. **COLLOQUIAL DICTION** - use of informal language that is link to a specific region or time period. **SLANG DICTION** - restricted of particular context or social group of people. **PEDANTIC DICTION**- use of highly complex are scholarly language. **POETIC DICTION** - use of descriptive and lyrical language to create mellifluous sound. **CONCRETE DICTION** - denotive meaning. **ABSTRACT DICTION** - use of intangible words. **LESSON 3: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERARY DEVICES IN CREATIVE WRITING ** IMAGERY- literary device that enables writer to paint picture using word. **TYPES OF IMAGERY ** - **VISUAL**- sight - **AUDITORY** - hearing - **OLFACTORY**- smell - **GUSTATORY**- taste - **TACTICLE**- touch - **KINESTHETIC** - motion - **ORGANIC** - sensation and emotion **THESAURUS** - dictionary of synonyms, a tool to discover words more clearly. **FIGURES OF SPEECH** - various strategic and creative uses of language that debate from conventional order. **SIMILE** - directly expresses the similarity between to objects. **METAPHOR** - declares two objects are identical. **SYNESTHESIA** - describing essence using a word or phrase that connected to senses. **OXYMORON** - combines two contradicting words. **PARADOX** - two contradicting words that may actually proven to be true. **IRONY**- uses language to express something that is opposite of what is actually meant. ** VERBAL IRONY**- opposite of what intends to express. **SITUATIONAL IRONY**- action that happened in the story is a opposite what is expected. **DRAMATIC** - readers know something in the story that the characters do not. **PERSONIFICATION** - gives human like characteristics. **APOSTROPHE** - an absent or a non-existent person. **ALLUSION** - reference to mythological, historical, biblical, and political figures **METONYMY**- name of the object is being substitute with the word close related. **SYNECDOCHE**- a part of something signifies its whole or the whole of something signifies its part. **ANAPHORA** - repetition in which the same word or phrase. **HYPERBOLE** - exaggeration used to highten effect humor. **LITOTES** - thing is expressed by declaring the negative of its opposite. **PUN OR PARONOMASIA**- plays on words. **LESSON 4: ELEMENTS OF POETRY** **POETRY**- an imaginative rhythmic work of art.\ WILLIAM WORDSWORTH- a famous romantic poet in his popular \'Preface\' to the lyrical ballads writes.\ \ **THE NATURE OF POETRY WRITING**\ **DEFAMILIARIZATION** - makes the familiar strange\ **FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE-** utilizes figure of speech\ **POETIC FORM** - separates itself from prose.\ **POETIC DESCRIPTION**- describe anything through proper choice of words. **\ STRUCTURE OF POETRY**\ **VERSE**- unit of poetry similar to line or stanza.\ **METER**- number of syllables in a line.\ **RHYME**- the same or approximately the same final sound. A rhyme scheme or pattern.\ **LINE BREAK**- exact point where the poet decides to end.\ **END-STOPPED LINE**- ends the sentence or the closed in poem\ ** ENJAMBMEMT**- line that has an in complete sentence.\ **\ TYPES OF POETRY\ LYRIC POETRY**- subjective and formal poetry originally accompanied by a lyre.\ **NARRATIVE POETRY**- tells a story.\ **DRAMATIC POETRY**- emotional poetry that is created to be spoken or acted.\ \ **3 MAJOR TYPES OF POETRY:** **CONNOTATION**- idea or feeling we associate with a word is distinguishable from dictionary meaning.\ **PRIVATE OR PERSONAL CONNOTRATIONS**- someone\'s life experience.\ **NATIONAL, RACIAL, OR LINGUISTIC CONNOTATION**- understood by group of people.\ **UNIVERSAL OR GENERAL CONNOTATION**- known by all people.\ \ **FORMS OF POETRY ACCORDING TO RHYME SCHEME\ ** Monorhyme (AAAA)\ Alternate Rhyme (ABAB)\ Unbound or Ballad Quatrain (ABAC/ABCB)\ Double Couplet (AABB)\ \ **COUPLET**- a pair of successive lines in poetry.\ **TERCET**- three lines in stanza and not monorhyme.\ **QUATRAIN**- four lines in a stanza.\ **QUINTET**- five lines\ **SESTET**- six lines\ **OCTAVE**- eight lines\ \ **THE TRADITIONAL TYPES OF POETRY\ BALLAD** -narrates a story\ **HAIKU**- consist of three lines with the syllable count 5-7-5.\ **LIMERICK**- five blind poverty that is usually amusing and cheeky. (AABBA)\ **SESTINA**- consist of six tenses followed by envoi.\ **SONNET**- has 14 lines.\ **TERZA RIMA** - set of interdependent tercets.\ **VILLANELLE** - 5 stanzas, each having 3 lines, followed by 6th stanza that contains 4 lines.\ **BLANK VERSE** - unconventional poem s that consist lines do not rhyme.\ **FREE VERSE** - is free of rhyme and meter. **LESSON 5: TECHNIQUES AND LITERARY DEVICES IN POETRY\ **\ DEFAMILIARIZATION- an artistic technique where the poet present something or subject of the piece.\ \ **SENSORY DEVICES:**\ **IMAGERY**- is a description of something that appeals to five senses.\ **METAPHOR**- a direct comparison between two concepts.\ **SIMILE**- uses the words like or as to compare or describe.\ \ **SOUND DEVICES:**\ **ALLITERATION** - repetition of a consonant sound.\ **ASSONANCE** -repetition of a vowel sound.\ **ONOMATOPOEIA** - sound produced by an animal or object.\ \ **OTHER POETIC DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES**\ **MNEMONIC**- presence a decoded word using the initial letters of lines.\ **REPETITION** - recurrent of words or phrase.\ **SYMBOLISM** - use of particular person or an object present an idea. **LESSON 6: INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE WRITING POETRY\ \ FOUND POETRY**- comes from the words that are barrowed from nonpoetic sources like magazine and newspapers.\ **BLACKOUT POETRY**- created by using a thick black marker s from the source text while living chosen words unshaded.\ **ERASE POETRY**- an erasing tool to reduct words.\ **MICRO POETRY**- characterized by its shortness.\ **SLAM POETRY** - performance based poetry that involves competition.\ **SPOKEN WORD POETRY**- without presence of competition.\ **PROSE POETRY**- combines the ways to create prose and poetry.\ \ **OTHER INNOVATIVE FORMS OF POETRY\ FIB**- six-line poem that is the right from the mathematical concept known as fibonacci quence.\ **BOP**- three stanza poem presents solution to problem.\ **BLITZ**- 50-line poem short but concrete phrases.\ **LUNE**- 3-line poem is known as the American Haiku.\ **HAY(NA)KU**- 6 syllables in 3-lines of 1, 2, and 3 example.\ **TRIVERSEN** - 6-stanza poem\ **MONOTETRA** - written in quatrain.\ **SEVENLING** - 3 stanzas. the first two stanzas contain a 3-lines and third stand as is single line acts as a summary. **LESSON 7: DRAFTING A POEM** **STAGES IN WRITING A POEM** 1\. **BRAIN STORMING A THEME**\ **THEME** - is the idea or statement that unifies the whole text.\ 2. **CHOOSING THE FORM AND LINE STRUCTURE\ **3. **IMPROVING WORD CHOICE**\ **WORD CHOICE**- it contributes to the content and the structure of the poem.\ 4. **REFINING YOUR WORK**\ **POETIC LICENSE**- freedom of the writer to ignore the rules of language. **LESSON 8: ELEMENTS IN FICTION**\ **NARRATIVE** MODES IN FICTION\ **EXPOSITION**- informed readers about the story\'s character, setting, and mood\ **ACTION** - allows the character to move or act in the story.\ **DESCRIPTION**- illustrate the story\'s characters and settings.\ **MONOLOGUE** - narrative note that uses self-talk.\ **DIALOGUE** - talking to other characters.\ \ **ELEMENTS IN FICTION**\ **CHARACTER** - person who gives life to story. **TYPES OF CHARACTERS:** - **Protagonist** - main character of the story. - **Antagonis**t - who opposes are contradicts the main character. - **Deuteragonist**- second most important character. - **Confidante**- close friend to main character. - **Foil**- person who has traits that contrast the main character but not the villain. - **Love Interest**- has romantic filling for main character. - **Tertiary or Background**- characters who are not directly connected to main story. - **Dynamic**- change personality as the story progress. - **Static**- whose personality remains and change. - **Round**- has varied and contrasting trait. - **Flat**- has one personality.\ \ **CHARACTER SKETCH**- detail description of a character you imagine. **SETTING**- the time, place, and conditions.\ **GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION-** includes that a topography scenery, and physical arrangements such as the window and door in a room.\ **OCCUPATION**- work and daily manner of living of characters.\ **TIME OR PERIOD**- when the action takes place.\ **GENERAL ENVIRONMENT**- a good religious, mental, social, and emotional conditions.\ \ **VIGNETTE**- short and descriptive writing that uses immedially to describe a subject.\ **POINT OF VIEW** - angle of narration.\ **FIRST PERSON**- the main character who narrates.\ **SECOND PERSON**- focal point of the narrators.\ **THIRD PERSON**- outside of server and not a character.\ TYPES OF THIRD PERSON\ **LIMITED**- tells the action and the speech of characters.\ **OMNISCIENT**- shares. everything about the characters in the story.\ \ **PLOT**- arrangement of story.\ **LINEAR**- chronological order of events.\ **EPISODIC**- set of connected incidents that form a bigger plot.\ **PARALLEL**- combination of two or more linear plots.\ **CIRCULAR-** start and ends with similar fashion.\ **IN MEDIDAS RES**- starts at the middle of story.\ **IN EXTREMA RES**- starts at the end.\ \ **ELEMENTS IN PLOT**\ **EXPOSITION**- initial part of a plot introduce elements.\ **RISING ACTION**- leads to complication.\ **CLIMAX** - highest point of tension, where conflict is shown.\ **FALLING ACTION**- where the tension decreases and issues are solved.\ **RESOLUTION OR DENOUEMENT**- main problem is resolved and the end of plot is told.\ \ **CONFLICT**- struggle in story.\ **TYPES OF CONFLICT**\ **MAN VS SELF**- between the protagonist and her/him self\ **MAN VS MAN**- protagonist and other person\ **MAN VS NATURE**- protagonist and natural forces.\ **MAN VS SUPERNATURAL**- protagonist and someone who has ability beyond human nature.\ **MAN VS TECHNOLOGY**- protagonist and technology product.\ **MAN VS SOCIETY**- protagonist and group of people belongs to social institution.\ \ **THEME** - represents the unifying idea. **OTHER LITERARY DEVICES IN FICTION** **ALLEGORY**- created to deliver a message about the issues. **EUPHEMISM**- word that acts as an alternative to another word. **FLASHBACK**- interrupting the chronological order of story. **FORESHADOWING**- hint about something that will happen in future. **JUXTAPOSITION-** 2 elements that have obvious differences. **TONE**- creates the emotional climate that readers feel.