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CREATIVE WRITING / IMAGINATIVE WRITING

Creative Writing / Imaginative Writing  is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics. is any form of writing which is written with the creativity of mind: fiction writing, poetry writing, creative nonfiction writing and more. The purpose is to express something, whether it be feelings, thoughts, or emotions.

• The best way to increase your proficiency in creative writing is to write, write compulsively, but it doesn’t just mean write whatever you want. There are certain things you should know first… it helps to start with the right foot. • How to Get Started in Creative Writing in Just Three Steps • Creative Writing vs. Technical Writing • Fiction Writing 101: The Elements of Stories • Poetry Writing: Forms and Galore • Creative Non-Fiction: What is it? • Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Creative Writing • Common Mistakes Made by Creative Writers

TECHNICAL WRITING A writing having special and practical knowledge especially of a mechanical or scientific subject.

SENSORY EXPERIENCE The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses; active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill.

LANGUAGE a) Imagery – language that causes people to imagine pictures in their minds, picture or photograph. b) Figures of Speech – also known as figurative language, it creates figures (pictures) in the mind of the reader or listener. These pictures help convey the meaning and more vividly than words alone. We use figures of speech in “figurative language” to add colour and interest, and awaken the imagination. Figurative language is everywhere, from classical works like Shakespeare’s and the Bible, to everyday speech, pop music, and television commercials. Figurative language means something different from what it says on the surface.

c) Diction – the selection of words in a literary work. A work’s diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values. We can speak of the diction particular to a character, as in Iago’s and Desdemona’s very different ways of speaking in Othello. We can also refer to a poet’s diction as represented over the body of his or her work, as in Donne’s or Hughe’s diction.

READING & WRITING POETRY

ELEMENTS OF THE GENRE  a category of literary composition; genres may be determined by literary techniques, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. The distinction between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups. The most general genres in literature are ( in loose chronological order) epic, tragedy, comedy, and creative nonfiction. They can all be in the form of prose and poetry. Additionally, genres such as satire, allegory, or pastoral might appear in any of the above, not only as a subgenre, but as a mixture of genres. Finally, they are defined by the general cultural movement of the historical period in which they were composed. Genre should not be confused with age categories, by which literature may be classified as either adult, young-adult, or children’s. they also must not be confused with format, such as graphic novel or picture book.

A.Essential Elements 1) THEME – a subject or a topic of discourse or of artistic representation, it is a specific and distinctive quality, characteristic or concern in an article.

2) TONE – a quality, feeling, style and attitude, expressed by the words that someone use’s in speaking or writing.

B. Elements for Specific Forms 1) CONVENTIONAL FORMS

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haiku A type of popular Japanese poem. Modern haiku is different from the traditional Japanese haiku. The modern haiku follows a 5-75 syllable rhyming structure. Well-written haiku is lovely and pleasurable to read. It takes a lot of skill to write great haiku. I tried my hand at one. Needless to say, even I didn’t like it.

- sonnet This type of poem has fallen out of favor now, but it is still my favorite type of poetry to read. It follows a strict ‘a-b-a-b’ rhyme scheme. It was made popular by Shakespeare. - rhyme and meter - metaphor word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar.

2) FREE VERSE - the line and the line break - enjambments the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines. - metaphor

C. Other Experimental Texts 1) TYPOGRAPHY – the general character or appearance of printed matter. 2) GENRE – crossing texts (prose – poems; performance poetry.

D. TONE

READING AND WRITING FICTION

A. Elements of the Genre 1) CHARACTER 2) POINT OF VIEW a) 1st- person POV b) 2nd- person POV c) 3rd- person POV 3) PLOT a) Linear b) Modular / Episodic c) Traditional parts : exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, denouement.

4) SETTING AND ATMOSPHERE a) Time and place b) Cultural, sociological, political, religious c) Sensibilities that lead to specific modes 5) CONFLICT 6) IRONY a) Verbal b) Situational c) Dramatic 7) THEME a) Moral lesson b) Dramatic premise c) Insight

B. Techniques and Literary Devices - refers to any specific, deliberate constructions, or choices of language that an author uses to convey meaning in particular way. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text; they represent deliberate choices by individual authors.

1) MODE or TONE

2) FORESHADOWING – the presentation of details, characters, or incidents in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for (or “shadowed forth”). 3) SYMBOLISM – a character, an action, a setting, or an object representing something else can be a symbol. Most often, the symbol in a story is as object that represents its owner’s character or situation, or both. For example, a secluded nearempty apartment might represent the alienation and emotional emptiness of the tenant. Symbols are usually recognized by the amount of emphasis they receive. Objects intended to be viewed as symbolic may be described in detail, be included in the title, be referred to frequently, or emphasized at the beginning or ending of the story. When we recognize a symbol and understand its meaning or meanings, we see more clearly what the writer chose to

READING AND WRITING DRAMA (ONE – ACT)

Elements Of The Genre 1) 2) 3) 4)

CHARACTER SETTING PLOT DIALOGUE

A. Techniques and Literary Devices 1) INTERTEXTUALITY 2) CONCEPTUALIZATION OF MODALITY

SAMPLE POEMS FOR CHILDREN

LADY BUG Lady bug, lady bug, Fly away home, Your house is on fire, Your children will burn.

There Was An Old Woman There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn’t know what to do, She gave them some broth without any bread, She wept them all soundly and put them to bed.

THE WIND I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you , Like ladies skirts across the grassO wind, a-blowing all day long O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at allO wind, a-blowing all day long O wind, that sings so loud a song!

Free Verse Author: Walt Whitman I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself!

I. Sample Of Poems and their Poets 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

John Milton – Paradise Lost William Blake – Songs of Innocence William Coleridge – Lyrical Ballads John Keats – Ode to a Nightingale Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets from the Portuguese 6. Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass

II. Sample of Novels and their Novelists 1. Pearl Buck – The Good Earth 2. Victor Hugo – Les Miserables & Hunchback of Notre Dame 3. Alexander Dumas – The Three Musketeers 4. Victor Blasco Ibanez – Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 5. Mark Twain – The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn 6. Kawabata Yasunari – Snow Country 7. Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe 8. Ernest Hemingway – For Whom The Bells Toll 9. Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

III. Drama and their Dramatist 1. Henrick Ibsen – The Wild Duck 2. Jean Racine - Andromaque 3. Pierre Cornielle – Le Cid 4. Friedrich Von Schiller – Mary Stuart and William Tell

IV. Plays and their Playwrights 1. William Shakespeare – Midsummer Night’s Dream; Macbeth 2. Edward Albee – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3. Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot 4. Clifford Odets – Waiting for Lefty 5. Anton Chekhov – The Three Sisters

V. ESSAYS 1. Henry David Thoreau – Walden (Book of Essays) - Civil Disobedience 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays 3. Dr. Samuel Johnson - Rambler 4. Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach 5. Charles Lamb – Essays of Elia

VI. Sonnets and their Sonneteers 1. Dante – La Vita Nuova 2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnets from the Portuguese 3. William Shakespeare – The Phoenix and the Turtle

FICTION Sample Stories 1. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving 2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 3. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 4. Rikki-tikki-tavi by Rudyard Kipling - story of Indian mongoose, a friend to humans and an enemy of the deadly cobra. 5. Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

PREPARED BY :

CLAIRE V. CO R E S O U RC E S P E A K E R