Subject: Creative Writing

Five Basic Types of Writing

1. Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific
audience for a specific purpose.
2. Creative writing - poetry, short stories, plays, and novels—and is most different from
technical writing.
3. Expository writing “exposes” a topic analytically and objectively, such as news
reports. Like technical writing, the goal of expository writing is to explain or reveal
knowledge, but expository writing does not necessarily expect a response or action from
the reader.
4. Expressive writing is a subjective response to a personal experience—journals and
diaries—whereastechnical writing might be objective observations of a work-related
experience or research.
5. Persuasive writing depends on emotional appeal. Its goal is to change attitudes or
motivate to action.
Language Used in Creative Writing
A. IMAGERY - words that name sense impressions of hearing, taste, touch, smell, and
sight. The device is used by the poet to draw a picture in the reader’s mind. Poets often
use figures of speech to form imagery. Imagery makes a poem come alive.
Types of Imagery
1. Visual - images of sight
2. Auditory - images of sound.
3. Olfactory - images of smell
4. Gustatory - images of taste.
5. Tactile - images of touch.
6. Kinesthetic and Kinetic - images of motion and activity. ( Kinesthetic is by human or
animal activity while Kinetic is general motion of objects.)
B. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE or FIGURES OF SPEECH - A figure of speech is an
expression that has more than a literal meaning.
Some figures of speech are:
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Anaphora
• Alliteration
• Apostrophe
• Allusion
• Irony
C. DICTION – The style or writing determined by the choice of words an author uses.
Poets intentionally use words with multiple meanings and derive ambiguity and richness
from the association of these words.
Forms of Diction
1. Denotation - is the standard dic