Creative Writing Flashcards
(48 cards)
_____ _______ is all about using your own creativity - your own imaginative, out-of-the-box, embellished way of thinking to create a piece of text.
Creative Writing
Types of Creative Writing
Biographies, Novels, Novellas, Short Stories, Poetry, Spoken Poetry, Playwriting, Personal Essays, Speeches
What makes a good piece of CW?
- Know your audience
- Write what you know
- Creativity is key
- Challenge your imagination
- Plot a loose arc
How to start CW?
- Read at every opportunity
- Start journaling
- Write, write, write…
_______ _______ is an expressive form of contemporary literature; one which allows you to draw on your own self-expression, imagination and ideas to portray a particular message, emotion, or narrative.
Creative Writing
Poetry is derived from the Greek term _____ meaning “______”.
poieo, I create
_______ evokes imagery and emotion through the play or words.
Poetry
______ is a form of art that predates literacy.
Poetry
The earliest poetry existed in forms of _____ and _____.
hymns and chants
5/12 Elements of Poetry
- Line
- Stanza
- Tone
- Rhythm
- Rhyme
Imagery
Theme
Density
Alliteration
Assonance
Figurative Language
Symbolism
This functions as a natural pause to signal a break in the flow.
Line
This is composed of a series of lines that are grouped together to form a structure of a poem.
Stanza
7 lines of stanzas
Couplet, Tercet, Quatrain, Cinquain, Sestet, Septet, Octave
______ is considered to be one of the most popular of all, considering how easy it is to group rhyming words in such structure.
Quatrain
______ implies to the attitude the writer has when writing about the poem’s subject and audiences’ feelings towards the subject.
Tone
This refers to the repetition of stressed and unstressed sound in poetry.
Rhythm
A strong pause within a line of poetry that adds to the rhythm of the entire line is called a ______.
Caesura
______ is the repetition of ending syllables in different words that sound identical.
Rhyme
1 example of rhyme
pitter and patter
It is a figurative language used to represent a certain action, object, and idea in a way that would appeal to 5 senses.
Imagery
This element is the general idea that a poet wants his or her readers to grasp.
Theme
______ is what makes poetry different from the normal speech and writing patterns.
Density
It is a repetition of mostly initial consonant sounds in one or two neighboring words or syllables.
Alliteration
1 example of alliteration
kick and cake or (tongue twister) “peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper”
