CREATIVE WRITING Reviewer!! (1st Grading)
WEEK 1
Lesson 1 – Creative Writing versus Academic Writing
CREATIVE WRITING
- Imaginative Writing
- Mainly to entertain through the ingenuity of the mind thus the
product is fictional.
Examples: POEMS, NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, & PLAYS
ACADEMIC WRITING
- Technical Writing
- Mostly intended to inform the reader in a formal manner; compels
a reader to take action.
Examples: RESEARCH PAPERS, BOOK REPORTS, & JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Lesson 2 – Diction
DICTION
Effective selection of words & phrases
Creative arrangement of words
A creative writer has freedom to play with words
Skill that you can choose words effectively
‼️don’t do this, bro
- Usage of repetitive words & plain words, readers will GET
BORED if you do
Diction through use of SPECIFIC WORDS
[Instead of HOUSE, use APARTMENT/CONDOMINIUM]
Diction through use of DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
[Instead of BLUE, use NAVY BLUE/PASTEL BLUE]
DICTION ERROR > If words are NOT CHOSEN CORRECTLY >:[[
Lesson 3 – Imagery
IMAGERY
Refers to words & phrases that elicit strong sensory responses.
Apply to ALL THINGS & aspects of sensory perception.
TYPE SENSE
VISUAL - Sight
AUDITORY - Hearing
OLFACTORY - Smell
GUSTATORY - Taste
TACTILE - Touch
KINESTHETIC - Muscular tension, exertion,
and response
, ORGANIC - Processes of bodily organs
Lesson 4 – Figures of Speech
FIGURES OF SPEECH
Word or phrase that has a meaning than the literal meaning
A. SIMILE – makes a comparison (similarities) and uses words ‘like’ or
‘as’
B. METAPHOR – makes an implied, hidden comparison between 2
things that are UNRELATED
C. PERSONIFICATION – gives human traits to inanimate objects or
ideas
D. APOSTROPHE – direct address to someone dead, absent, or
inanimate
E. HYPERBOLE – exaggerated!!
F. IRONY – says the opposite of what is meant
G. METONYMY – subs a word that closely relates to a person/thing
H. SYNECDOCHE – part of something represents a whole or vice versa
I. ALLUSION – refers to any literary, biblical, historical, etc.
J. ANTITHESIS – involves two opposite ideas
K. PARADOX – on surface seems contradictor but makes some kind of
emotional sense
L. LITOTES – understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite
M. OXYMORON – put together two contradictory terms
WEEK 2
Poetry
- literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience or a specific emotional response.
5 FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POETRY
1. Poetic line instead of sentence
2. Relying more on images
3. Cultivating the sound of words
4. Rhythms of language
5. Creating density
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Theme – underlying message or big idea
Tone – the attitude of the poet towards the audience
Mood – feeling of the reader
Point of View – perspective or viewpoint of the speaker
Rhyme – repetitive occurrence of similar sounding words
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RHYME
1. True Rhyme/Full Rhyme - final accented vowel and all succeeding
consonants or syllables are identical.
WEEK 1
Lesson 1 – Creative Writing versus Academic Writing
CREATIVE WRITING
- Imaginative Writing
- Mainly to entertain through the ingenuity of the mind thus the
product is fictional.
Examples: POEMS, NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, & PLAYS
ACADEMIC WRITING
- Technical Writing
- Mostly intended to inform the reader in a formal manner; compels
a reader to take action.
Examples: RESEARCH PAPERS, BOOK REPORTS, & JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Lesson 2 – Diction
DICTION
Effective selection of words & phrases
Creative arrangement of words
A creative writer has freedom to play with words
Skill that you can choose words effectively
‼️don’t do this, bro
- Usage of repetitive words & plain words, readers will GET
BORED if you do
Diction through use of SPECIFIC WORDS
[Instead of HOUSE, use APARTMENT/CONDOMINIUM]
Diction through use of DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
[Instead of BLUE, use NAVY BLUE/PASTEL BLUE]
DICTION ERROR > If words are NOT CHOSEN CORRECTLY >:[[
Lesson 3 – Imagery
IMAGERY
Refers to words & phrases that elicit strong sensory responses.
Apply to ALL THINGS & aspects of sensory perception.
TYPE SENSE
VISUAL - Sight
AUDITORY - Hearing
OLFACTORY - Smell
GUSTATORY - Taste
TACTILE - Touch
KINESTHETIC - Muscular tension, exertion,
and response
, ORGANIC - Processes of bodily organs
Lesson 4 – Figures of Speech
FIGURES OF SPEECH
Word or phrase that has a meaning than the literal meaning
A. SIMILE – makes a comparison (similarities) and uses words ‘like’ or
‘as’
B. METAPHOR – makes an implied, hidden comparison between 2
things that are UNRELATED
C. PERSONIFICATION – gives human traits to inanimate objects or
ideas
D. APOSTROPHE – direct address to someone dead, absent, or
inanimate
E. HYPERBOLE – exaggerated!!
F. IRONY – says the opposite of what is meant
G. METONYMY – subs a word that closely relates to a person/thing
H. SYNECDOCHE – part of something represents a whole or vice versa
I. ALLUSION – refers to any literary, biblical, historical, etc.
J. ANTITHESIS – involves two opposite ideas
K. PARADOX – on surface seems contradictor but makes some kind of
emotional sense
L. LITOTES – understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite
M. OXYMORON – put together two contradictory terms
WEEK 2
Poetry
- literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience or a specific emotional response.
5 FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF POETRY
1. Poetic line instead of sentence
2. Relying more on images
3. Cultivating the sound of words
4. Rhythms of language
5. Creating density
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Theme – underlying message or big idea
Tone – the attitude of the poet towards the audience
Mood – feeling of the reader
Point of View – perspective or viewpoint of the speaker
Rhyme – repetitive occurrence of similar sounding words
DIFFERENT TYPES OF RHYME
1. True Rhyme/Full Rhyme - final accented vowel and all succeeding
consonants or syllables are identical.
