THE POWER OF WRITING

( GREATNESS IN WRITING CAN BE SEEN IN THE ECONOMY OF

WORDS, WOVEN BEAUTIFULLY.)

Creative Nonfiction
 FULL NAME ( LAST, FIRST,MIDDLE NAME) SECTION
SUBJECT
Font page of • 1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
your • +2 IF YOU HAVE A DICTIONARY
notebook, • COPY OF UNFAMILIAR WORDS (COMPLETE OR NOT)
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• COPY AND SCORE IN PROOF READING TEST
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half bond • QUIZ 1- MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE- SCORE
paper. • QUIZ 2- ESSAY
• QUIZ 3- SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION
• FIND THE MEANING OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS
(HOMEWORK)
• REFLECTION ESSAY ABOUT THE SHORT STORY THE WITCH BY
EDILBERTO K. TIEMPO
• GRASPS ABOUT THE PAISKARAN SA UNO

• Checked by: (full name of your classmate/checker and signature)

• Introduction to Literary
Genres
• 1. Understanding Conventions of
Traditional Genres
a. Fiction- Prose
Short story, novel, drama and film
b. Poetry

• 2. Identifying Elements of the different

Genres
• 3. Using Elements as Techniques to develop
Themes
 FICTION
• PROSE
1. SHORT STORY AND FLASH
FICTION
2. NOVEL
3. DRAMA/THEATRE PLAY
4. FILM
 POETRY
• STRUCTURE
2- COUPLET
3- TERCET
4- QUATRAIN
5- CINQUAIN
6- SESTET
7- SEPTET
8- OCTAVE
• FORMS
• LYRICAL
1. FOLKSONGS
2. SONNETS
3. ELEGY
4. ODE
5. PSALMS
6. SONG (12)
7. CORRIDOS (8)
• FORMS
• NARRATIVE

1. EPIC
2. METRICAL TALE
3. BALLADS
• FORMS
• DRAMATIC

1. COMEDY
2. MELODRAMA
3. TRAGEDY
4. FARCE
5. SOCIAL POEMS
• Principles, Elements, Techniques,
• Devices of Creative Nonfiction
• 1. Using Elements of Creative Nonfiction
• a. Plot
• b. Characters
• c. Characterization
• d. Point of View
• e. Angle
• f. Setting and Atmosphere
• g. Symbols and Symbolisms
• h. Irony
• i. Figures of speech
• j. Dialogue
• k. Scene
• 2. Developing themes by
• combining multiple
• elements
FIND THE MEANING OF THE
FOLLOWING WORDS.
.Diction .Allusion (FS) . Epistrophe
. Alliteration (FS) . Flashbacks
.Foreshadowing . Imagery (FS)
. Hyperbole (FS) .
Paradox (FS) . Simile (FS) .
Metaphor (FS) .
Oxymoron (FS) . Personification (FS)
.Onomatopoeia (FS) . Farce
Genre of Non fiction

• Works which
presentation of facts and
reality is CLOTHED
with literary devices and
elements.
What is nonfiction anyway
• Creative nonfiction: the art of
bringing all the strategies of
storytelling to the narration of factual
events.
• Telling true stories from a particular
perspective using literary techniques
• Writing creative nonfiction is about
finding your voice and perspective.
Types + Elements
• Types: memoirs, memos, e-mails,
reports, biographies, lit journalism,
news…
• Set a vivid scene + tell the story
(that happens to be true) in great
detail
• 1. narrative- biography, autobiography,
memoirs, character sketch, travel
narratives
• 2. exploratory-essay
• 3. reflective- review, commentary, blog
• 4. testimonial- feature,
interview/speech story,
reportage(docu), testimonial
• Literature features human experiences that
are seen as fleeting moments caught by
creative eye. (Barnet, et al., 2003)
• It also speaks directly as it nourishes
people’s emotional lives.
• The major genres in literature are poetry,
fiction, drama, and essays. Genre can also
refer to more specific types of literature
such as comedy, tragedy, epic or science
fiction”.
 PROSE
• PROSE- takes its form in an unmetered style and
uses natural speech than rhyme.
• A. short story- concise prose that is shorter than
a novel with few characters to portray.
• (elements of short story)
• A. character
• B. setting
• C. plot
• D. Conflict
• E. Theme
• Novel- written in prose format and
published as a book, a novel is a long
piece of creative fiction that is believed
to be possessing, demanding, and
complex.
• Drama/Theater Play
• It’s origins trace back to Greek with the
word dran meaning to do or to perform.
• ( common genres in drama)
• 1. comedy- stems from komeode which means
merrymakings. (Law, 2011)
• 2. Farce- is grounded in ancient drama, yet
critics looked down on it as vulgar. (Strange,
2002)
• 3. Satire- from the Latin word means medley
with origins in cooking. It employs different
comic exaggeration to mock human behaviour
in the chance of being transformed or
corrected. (Carlson, 2002)
• 4. Tragedy- portrays a sad ending (Law, 2011)
• 5. Historical Drama- is an old theatre featuring
historical characteristics and events. (Palmer)
• 6. Musical Theatre-combines dialogues, songs,
and dance numbers and accredited to
Broadway. (Law, 2011)
• 7. Absurd Play- demonstrates existentialism
that rejects the realistic characters, settings,
situations, and thereby
presents ,meaninglessness and isolation of
human life (Carlson, 2002)
• Film- there are many names attached to the
word films, many call it movies, motion
picture, theatre films or a run through of still
images on the screen.
Figurative Devices in Poetry
• 1. Simile uses like or as
• 2. metaphor deletes the words like or as and uses
direct comparison among objects or circumstance
• 3. synecdoche refers to a segment/part of
something that is replaced to represent in for a
whole or vice versa
• 4. metonymy is a word or phrase that is used to
represent for another word
• 5. symbolism uses an object or a word to represent
an abstract idea
• 6. allegory presents a series of abstract
ideas and images depicted in a narrative
• 7. personification uses inanimate objects
as people giving them human attributes
• 8. irony employs contradictory
statements or situations to show reality
dissimilar from truth
• 9. paradox uses contradictory statements
but in a closer examination turns out to
make sense.
Non fiction
Reality is accented

Authority of literature

Authority of fact- based

Stretched scenes or experiences

Finding the Story
• Every story must have momentum
• Choose your characters carefully
• Make the reader think about your
narrative arc
Finding the Story
• If fiction, rewriting this story
would be simple
• But in nonfiction, we cannot invent
anything.
• So why nonfiction: the power of
true human experience.
• To find the story, you have to
gather as many details as
characters are in the details.
Focus the Lens
• When characters meet, something has
to happen to create dramatic tension
• You can’t create dramatic moments,
but you can decide which order to
present them
• Where you shift the “camera” is the
POV and that’s what makes a story
your story.
• E.g. focusing on lipstick says what
about the character?
Three Elements of a
Good Story

• Narrative Arc: series of events

filled with dramatic tension
• Drama/Conflict: opposition and
struggle is interesting
• Character: one who is capable of
transformation; characters who
struggle against each other with
different goals/aims.
– Characters must be complex to be
interesting.
Researching
• The most challenging/most
important aspect of writing CNF
• Think: where might you find
materials? What kind of
information can you get access to?
How is what you have
groundbreaking?
• CNF = new material, new
perspective, new research.
Using Elements of Creative Nonfiction
• Plot- pertains to the arrangement of events in a
story governed by the cause and effect relationship.
• Exposition- is the beginning information given by
the writer in the story.
• Inciting moment- takes place when the readers
comprehend the problem of the story.
• Dramatic Question- is a response from the inciting
moment.
• Rising action- mirrors the essential inner conflict
that will wrestle to a complication and then head
start to another conflict.
• Crisis situation- is the time where the readers
understand how the writer’s experience will
enable him or her to be successful or a failure
from such ordeal.
• Climax- is the highest level of the storyline
since it represents the turning point that marks
a change of the main character.
• Falling Action- is the reversal of the story that
depicts the moment of finals suspense.
• Denouement is the time when the falling
action and the concluding scene of the
narrative takes place. (Freytags’s Pyramid,
2011)
• Plot devices- are ways of propelling the
storyline to move forward.
• Plot outline- is a narrative of a story that can
be transformed into a film.
 Conflict
• Types of conflict
• 1. One Character against another
• 2. A character or Group Against Society
• 3. A character Against Nature
• 4. Character Against Himself or Herself
• Theme- pertains to the idea that philosophers
deeply think or it is simply the subjects of the
story.
• Characters- are portrayal of people or animals
in a narrative wherein their attitudes can be
manifested in direct or indirect
characterization.
 Narrative point of View
• 1. First-person- can be seen through the narrator
who is the character in his or her own story and
this can be illustrated in the pronoun I.
• 2. Second-Person- the narrator uses the pronoun
you telling the story of another person.
• 3. Third person- where every character is signified
to by the storyteller as she, he, it or they.
• 4. Alternating person- used in novels when
authors experiment different points of view.
 IDENTIFICATION
• 1. LITERARY WORK IN WHICH SPECIAL
INTENSITY IS GIVEN TO THE
EXPRESSION OF FEELINGD AND IDEAS
USING DISTINCTIVE STYLE AND
RHYTHM.
• 2. ABSTRACT IDEAS TO REPRESENT
SOMETHING
• 3. LITERATURE IN THE FORM OF PROSE
THAT DESCRIBE IMAGENARY PEOPLE
AND EVENTS.

• 4. A PERSON IN A NOVEL, PLAY, STORY OR

MOVIE

• 5. A GOOD JOURNALISM THAT REFERS TO

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL REALITY, PAST
DEVELOPMENTS, AND CURRENT AFFAIRS.
• 6. THE SPECIFIC VIEWPOINT FROM
WHICH A WRITER TELLS HIS OF HER
STORY.

• 7. THE LOCATION AND TIME FRAME IN

WHICH THE ACTION OF A NARRATIVE
TAKES PLACE.
• 8. A WEBSITE CONTAINING A WRITER’S OR
GROUP OF WRITERS’ OWN EXPERIENCES
OFTEN HAVING IMAGES AND LINKS TO
OTHER WEBSITE.

• 9. SOLEMN ATTESTATION OF EXPERIENCE

ABOUT DISCRIMINATION

• 10. I AM TIRED OF THIS JOB. I AM OVER

WITH THIS JOB. I AM DONE WITH THIS JOB!
• 11. ANES GANAP? IT IS THE
BONGGACIOUS FIESTA DITETSHIWA IN
THE PHILIPPINES.

• 12. DON’T ACT LIKE “ROMEO IN FRONT

OF HER.”

• 13. IN A STORY ABOUT A GIRL WHO IS

AFRAID OF HEIGHTS, THERE IS A
FLASHBACK TO A TIME WHEN SHE
FELL OFF THE TOP OF A PLAYGROUD
AS A YOUNG GIRL.
14. IT WAS A COLD STORMY
NIGHT THAT WOULD INTRODUCE
HER TO ETERNAL DARKNESS,
FOREVER CHANGING THE
COURSE OF HER LIFE.

15. KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE,

AND YOUR ENEMIES’ CLOSER.

16. THE EXPERIENCES THAT WE

HAD WERE BITTERSWEET
MEMORIES TO US.
• 17. AS I UNVEILED THE BEIDGE
CURTAIN OF MY COTTAGE’S
WINDOW, I WITNESSED A
PICTURESQUE VIEW OF
CARAMOAN. IT WAS INTENSIVELY
HEAVEN.

• 18. I AM SO HUNGRY, I CAN EAT A

WHOLE COW.
• 19. I WANT THE BEST, I NEED THE BEST,
I DESERVE THE BEST.

• 20. I AM FRUSTRATED WITH THIS

ORGANIZED CHAOS.
• READ AND ANALYZE THE SHORT
STORY ENTITLED THE WITCH
AUTHORED BY EDILBERTO K.
TIEMPO.
• CREATE A REFLECTION ESSAY
REGARDING THE MESSAGE OF
THE AUTHOR TO HIS AUDIENCE.
INCLUDE THE PLOT OF THE
STORY IN YOUR ESSAY.
• GENERATING INSIGHTS USING GRASPS – the “PAISKARAN SA UNO:
Unveiling Vanguard’s Expertise and Craftsmanship Through Diverse and
Resilient Education.
• • Your task is to analyze and interpret the strand’s entry for the PAISKARAN.
Complete the needed information using the grasps illustration. Write your answer
on your answer sheet.

• Goal: students need to establish the challenge, issue or problem to solve.

• Role: students need to evaluate the importance of his/her role that might be taking
in a familiar real-life situation.
• Audience: identify the target audience
• Situation: create a reflective essay or explain the context of promoting the
Unveiling Vanguard’s Expertise and Craftsmanship Through Diverse and
Resilient Education.
• Product / Performance and Purpose: paint a clear picture of the WHAT and WHY
of the product creation or the performance.
Standards & Criteria for Success:
Relevance to the Theme (30%).
Organization of Ideas (20%)
Content / Subject Knowledge (30%).
Creativity and Originality (20%).