Creative Non-Fiction  Assessing and considering his ideologies and beliefs, which
Mrs. Merry Grace T. Quiamco help the writer to be more factual-based.
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY GENRES
What is NONFICTION?
 A wide kind of compositions that incorporates all books that are not
established in an anecdotal account.
 Deals with reality
 Examples are textbooks, manuals, technical writing, journalism
CREATIVE NONFICTION
 A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create
factually accurate narratives
 Focused in stories with narrative plot which is based in truth, with
accurate retelling of the author’s life experiences.
 Leo Gutkind – founder of the literary journal called Creative Nonfiction.
 Creative Nonfiction heightens the whole concept of essay writing.
 It allows the writer to employ the shifting voices and viewpoints of a
novelist, the refined wordplay of a poet and the analytical modes of an
essayist.
5Rs of CREATIVE NONFICTION
 REAL LIFE – vital and real information about the subject which can be
associated on close attributes of the real experiences.
 REFLECTION – personal reflection
 Writer scrutinize and analyze gathered information
 RESEARCH – complete research
 Need to find out relevant and vital information
 Need to finish investigating and weighing what will be included
in the story
 Example: looking into an individual diary, meeting a companion
or relative, to guarantee data is honest and genuine.
 READING – recall the components through reading to improve and
make modifications
 WRITING – writing imaginative true to life
 The craft necessitates that the essayists utilizes his gifts,
senses, innovative capacities, and creative mind to compose
paramount imaginative true to life.
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TYPES OF CREATIVE NONFICTION
 PERSONAL ESSAY – personal experience or single event; uses First
Person – I
 MEMOIR – creates a real story within a time period of life that
contributed a significant personal meaning and truth; uses First Person
–I
 LITERARY JOURNALISM ESSAY – output on an issue or topic using
the understood literary devices such as the elements of fiction and
figurative language.
  AUTOBIOGRAPHY – his/her own life story, from birth to the present;
uses the pronoun “I”
 TRAVEL WRITING – article narration of travel using literary devices
and figurative language
 FOOD WRITING – crafts stories about food and cuisine using literary
technique that may lead to review and recommendation
 PROFILES – constructs life stories of people using literary devices
CAROLYN FORCE AND PHILIP GERARD
The literariness of creative nonfiction, distinguishes it from deadline
reportage, daily journalism, academic criticism, and critical biography.
It is a story telling of a very high order through:
 the revelation of a character
 suspense of plot
 subtle braiding of themes and resonance
 memory and imaginative research
 precise and original language
CREATIVE WRITING
- Validity of facts and imaginative stance of storytelling
CREATIVE
- use of literary craft in the writing of nonfiction
According to Gutkind, a task can be identified as creative nonfiction when the
writer communicates information just like a reporter but shape in a way reads
like fiction.
UNDERSTANDING THE GENRES OF FICTION AND DRAMA
What is fiction?
- Series of imagine facts which illustrates truths about ‘human life’
- Commonly called ‘stories’
- Can be short (short story) or rather long (novella or novel)
What is Drama?
- Uses traditional conventions of fiction
- Has additional distinctive characteristics of being mounted on stage
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF FICTION AND DRAMA
Fiction – Short story or novel
 Short story – a brief artistic form that centers on a single main idea and
intend to produce a single dominant impression
 Novel – an extensive prose or narratives that contains chapters and
interludes
WHAT IS A PLAY?
- a work of drama generally classified into acts or major divisions
TYPES OF PLAYS
 One-act play – one unit of place and one unit of action and play
 Three-act play – showcases a longer exposition of the theme and
conflict
POINT OF VIEW
- The vantage point or the angle from which the readers can see how
the story unfolds
- Can be told from the perspective of a narrator, main supporting
character, or an observer
- Can also come from an omniscient or all-knowing being
- Drama also employs point of view but it is not apparent and evident in
a play
- Interplay of dialogue between and among the characters
- Move the action of the play
WHAT IS A DIALOGUE?
- what the viewers see and hear in a performance and these are the words
uttered by the characters in a dramatic play
ELEMENTS OF PLOT
 Exposition – introduces the characters and the dramatic situation of a
story or play
 Rising Action – introduces the main conflict of a story or play
 Climax – introduces the central movement of crisis that defines the
conflict
 Falling Action – introduces the aftermath of conflict
 Resolution/Denouement – introduces the moment of insight, discovery,
revelation of the character after the falling action
THE THREE GENERAL PARTS OF PLOT
- The Beginning
- The Middle
- The End
NARRATIVE DEVICES
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 Foreshadowing – give hints to what happens next in the story
 Irony – words uttered, either by author or characters are opposite of
what they really mean
 Flashback – use of past event that will help the readers understand the
present
 Conflict – showcases the opposing objectives of the protagonist and
the antagonist, or inside the protagonist
 Deus Ex Machina – refers to the contrived element in the plot to solve
a problem
 A plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is
suddenly an abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely
occurrence.