CREATIVE

Non - Fiction
Tr. Criza M. Salines
Recall…
WHAT IS
CREATIVE?
Recall…
WHAT IS NON-
FICTION?
Creative Non-Fiction
Is a genre of writing that uses
literary styles and techniques
to create factually accurate
narratives.
 CREATIVE NON-FICTION
 An art of bringing all the strategies of
storytelling to the narration of factual
events.
It is also different to Technical
writing
DIFFERENT FORMS OF CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY – a written account of
the life of a person written by him/himself.

Example: The Diary of a Young Girl – a book

writings from the Dutch kept by Anne Frank
while she was hiding for two years during
Nazi occupation.
DIFFERENT FORMS OF CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
2. BIOGRAPHY – a detailed description or
account of a person’s life written or as told
by someone else.

Example: Lines from the Biography of

“Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson
DIFFERENT FORMS OF CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
3. LITERARY JOURNALISM/REPORTAGE –
a kind of journalism that reports on an
event, history or an actual case based
on direct observation, investigation or
thorough research and
documentation.
DIFFERENT FORMS OF CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
Example: “Letting
Go: What should
medicine do when it can’t save
your life? – Atul Gawande, The
New Yorker
DIFFERENT FORMS OF CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
4. PERSONAL NARRATIVE – a narrative
essay about a true story of something that
happened to someone, usually told to
illustrate an insight.

Example: Lines taken from “My Mother” by

Lori Ann Proust
DIFFERENT FORMS OF CREATIVE NON-
FICTION
5. TRAVELOGUE – a story of the
experiences encountered by someone
while touring a place for the pleasure of
travel.

Example: Lines from “Walking from Seattle

to Chicago” by Anonymous
 UNDERSTANDING THE
GENRES OF FICTION
AND DRAMA
Tr. Criza M. Salines
 FICTION
 Defined as “ a series of
imagined facts which illustrates
truths about human life.
Can either be short or rather
long.
 DRAMA
 Uses traditional conventions of
fiction but has an additional
distinctive characteristic of being
performed
Mounted on stage
ELEMENTS OF FICTION AND DRAMA
 PLOT – The sequence of events
happening in a story.

 SETTING – The place and time

where and when an event
happen
ELEMENTS OF FICTION AND DRAMA
 CHARACTERISTICS – The
persons who inhabit a story

 THEME – The central idea, or

thesis, or overall message that
the story conveys.
 Plays (drama), are generally
classified into acts or major
divisions.

1. ONE-ACT PLAY – has one unit

of time, one unit of place, and
one unit of action play
 Plays (drama), are generally
classified into acts or major
divisions.

2. THREE-ACT PLAY –
Showcases a longer exposition of
the theme and conflict.
 FICTION – classified as short
story or novel.

 SHORT STORY – is a brief artistic

prose from that centers on a single
main incident and intends to produce
a single dominant expression.
 FICTION – classified as short
story or novel.

 NOVEL – is an extensive prose

narrative that contains chapters
and interludes.
 POINT OF VIEW – is the
vantage point or the angle from
which the readers can see how
the story unfolds.

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