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Creative Writing
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CREATIVE WRITING
TYPES OF CREATIVE WRITING
★ is fiction, poetry, short stories, plays,
★ Poetry
and novels and is most different from
★ Plays
technical writing.
★ Movie and television scripts
★ also known as “the art of making ★ Fiction (novels, novellas, and short
things up,” creative writing is a vital stories)
part of modern society. ★ Songs
★ Speeches
★ though the definition is rather loose,
★ Memoirs
creative writing can for the most part
★ Personal essays
be considered any writing that is
original and self-expressive.
TECHNIQUES OF CREATIVE WRITING

PURPOSE OF CREATIVE WRITING ★ Character development

★ to both entertain and share human
experience, like love or loss.
★ to get at the truth about humanity
through poetics and storytelling.
★ If you'd like to try your hand at
creative writing, just keep in mind
that whether you are trying to
express a feeling or a thought, the
first step is to use
imagination.
★ Plot development
★ Vivid setting
★ Underlying theme
★ Point of view
★ Dialogue
★ Anecdotes
★ Metaphors and similes
★ Figures of speech
★ Imaginative language
★ Emotional appeal
your
★ Heavy description
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sight sense, is a common feature in
vivid writing.
SENSORY DETAILS IN WRITING
★ Sensory details help the reader feel
★ The writer's ability to create a
like he or she was there and create a
gripping and memorable story has
more intimate connection to the
much to do with engaging our five
narrator or writer and a greater
senses.
understanding of the text.
★ Adjectives help set mood and
★ Sensory details include sight,
tone in the text and help establish
sound, touch, smell, and taste.
a strong voice.
Writers employ the five senses to
engage a reader's interest. If you
LANGUAGES IN CREATIVE WRITING
want your writing to jump off the
page, then bring your reader into the ★ IMAGERY
world you are creating.
○ It can be defined as a writer or
★ When sensory details are used, your speaker’s use of words or
readers can personally experience figures of speech to create a
whatever you're trying to describe, vivid mental picture or
reminding them of their own physical sensation.
experiences, giving your writing a
○ Imagery is language used
universal feel. A universal quality is
by poets, novelists and
conveyed when a writer is able to
other writers to create
personally connect with the
images in the mind of the
readers.
reader.
★ There is no one sense that's more
important than another. It all
depends on the scene you're trying
to create. However, imagery, the
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TYPES OF IMAGERY
★ AUDITORY
○ Refers to sounds. Literary
devices such
onomatopoeia and alliteration
can help create sounds in
writing.
★ VISUAL
○ Refers to what you can see.
Physical attributes including
color, size, shape, lightness
and darkness, shadows, and
shade are all part of visual
imagery.
★ OLFACTORY
○ Refers to what you can
smell. Scent is one of the
most direct triggers
memory and emotion, but can
be difficult to write about.
Since taste and smell are so
closely linked,
sometimes find the
words (such as “sweet”) used
to describe both.
○ Simile is common in olfactory
imagery, because it allows
writers to compare a particular
as scent to common smells like
dirt, grass, manure, or roses.
★ GUSTATORY
○ Refers to what you can
taste. This can include the
five basic tastes — sweet,
salty, bitter, sour, and umami
— as well as the textures and
sensations tied to the act of
eating.
★ TACTILE
○ Refers to what you can feel.
This includes textures and the
many sensations a human
of being experiences when
touching something.
Differences in temperature is
also a part of tactile imagery.
you’ll
★ KINESTHETIC
same
○ Refers to the feeling of
movement. This can be
similar to tactile imagery but
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deals more with full-body
sensations, such as those
experienced during exercise. ★ DICTION

★ ORGANIC ○ Diction = word choice

○ Refers to the internal ○ A study of diction is the

sensations. When the writer analysis of how a writer uses
uses concrete description to language for a distinct
show an internal landscape of purpose and effect, including
feelings, pains, emotions, and word choice and figures of
desires, they’re using organic speech.
imagery.
○ Informal Diction (personal
★ SYMBOLISM writing) e.g. bug, folks, job,
kid, boss, get across
○ Carl Jung defined a symbol as
“a term, a name, or even a ○ Formal Diction (academic or
picture that may be familiar literary writing) e.g. germ,
in daily life, yet that relatives, position, child,
possesses specific superior, communicate
connotations in addition to
TYPES OF DICTION
its conventional and
obvious meaning.” ★ Colloquial words
○ conversational language
○ Symbols can be based on
○ Is there a dialect?
culture, such as a country’s
★ Slang
flag (stars and stripes = USA),
○ highly informal
or religion (the cross =
★ Jargon
Christianity), or other things.
○ the special language of a
profession or group (lawyer
talk, technical talk)
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★ Using the poetic line rather than the

POETRY
sentence as the primary unit
★ Poetry
★ Relying more on images than in
○ applied to the many forms in abstractions
which human beings have
★ Cultivating the sound of words
given rhythmic expression to
their intense perceptions of ★ Developing rhythms of language
the world, themselves, and
★ Creating density by implying far
relation of the two.
more than is stated
○ often being reserved for
verses of high merit.
ELEMENTS OF GENRE
★ Verse (has 2 senses)
A. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
○ the metrical line as a basic
★ Theme
unit of poetry
○ the central idea, the thesis,
○ any form of metrical the message a story conveys,
composition or a generalization or an
abstraction from it
○ refers to a metrical
★ Tone
composition, usually one
○ refers to the intellectual and
with a regular rhyme and
emotional attitudes of the poet
rhythm but does not indicate
towards his or her intended
its quality.
audience
Poetry Vs. Prose ★ Mood
○ refers to the emotional and
According to Stephen Minot, there
intellectual attitudes of the
are five fundamental characteristics that
author towards his/her subject
distinguish poetry from prose:
matter in a given literary work
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★ Atmosphere
○ In arts including literature, the
term atmosphere denotes the
dominant mood or emotional
★ Diona
tone of a work, be it a
painting, a play, a ballet, a
film, a novel, or a poem.
★ Persona
○ originally refers to the mask
worn by a Greek actor when
he performs a role in a
classical tragedy or comedy,
hence the related theatrical
term dramatis personae or the
list of cast members in a play.
B. CONVENTIONAL FORMS
EASTERN POETIC FORMS
★ Tanaga
○ An indigenous or native
★ Haiku
Tagalog fixed poetic form. It is
composed of heptasyllabic
lines or four lines
containing seven syllables
each.
○ It is made up of two couplets
that have a rhyme scheme of
aabb.
○ Traditionally does not have a
title, since the poem should
be able to stand on its own.
○ Another indigenous or native
Tagalog fixed poetic form. It is
composed of three
octosyllabic lines with
monorhyme, or three lines
containing eight syllables
each that all rhyme with one
another.
○ It has been labeled by some
Filipino literary enthusiasts as
the Pinoy haiku.
○ as a domestic song could
either be a courting song or
a wedding song.
○ A traditional Japanese fixed
poetic form composed of
three unrhymed lines
comprising seventeen
syllables. (575 scheme)
○ Topic: Nature
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★ Tanka WESTERN POETIC FORMS

○ (short song, as opposed to ★ Sonnet

the chǀka or long song) is a
Japanese fixed poetic form
composed of five unrhymed
lines comprising thirty-one
syllables. (57577 scheme)
○ Topic: More often a highly
personal reflection on love
and other powerful
emotions.
★ Renga
○ The most popular type of
Japanese collaborative poetry
for almost seven hundred
years. It follows the format
of alternating three and two
lines containing 57577
syllables.
○ In terms of length, the renga
can range from twelve
stanzas like in the junicho and
the shisan, to fifty stanzas like
in the gojuin, to one hundred
stanzas like in the hyakuin,
and to one thousand stanzas
like in the senku.
○ A fixed lyrical form of poetry
composed of fourteen lines
that follow a certain set
pattern or rhyme scheme.
○ 2 major types:
Italian/Petrarchan sonnet and
the English/Shakespearean
sonnet
○ Topic: The typical subject
matter is love
○ Octave (8 lines), Sestet (6
lines)
★ Ode
○ A lyrical form of poetry that is
exalted both in terms of tone
and subject matter. It is
characterized by solemnity,
dignity and gallantry, as
well as emotional intensity,
powerful imagination and
vivid imagery. The main
intention of the ode is to
elevate its subject matter,
whether it be a person, an
object or an event.
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○ The Ode has evolved and ○ The first five stanzas are
loosened up not only in terms made up of tercets (or
of its form and structure stanzas of three lines each),
while the final stanza is made
○ The Pindaric ode has 3
up of quatrain (or four lines).
distinctive parts:
○ The rhyme scheme of the
Strophe - the first section
villanelle is aba aba aba aba
Antistrophe - the second aba abaa.
section
○ The first line of the first stanza
Epode - third section is repeated as the last line of
the second and fourth
★ Elegy
stanzas, while the third line of
○ A lyrical form of poetry that the first stanza is repeated as
laments the demise of a the last line of the third and
person, usually someone fifth stanza.
important, or a
contemplation of the
phenomenon of death itself.

○ It is not a metrical form and

does not follow any required
set pattern or rhyme scheme,
or even a particular cadence
of rhythm.

★ Villanelle

○ A fixed lyrical form of poetry

composed of nineteen lines
that follows a certain set
pattern of rhyme scheme.