Creative Writing Flashcards
the art of making things up; leads to the artistic phenomenon of creating things; uses language in imaginative and bold ways.
Creative Writing
derived from your imaginations
Fictional
reality
Non-Fictional
refers to the oral, written, auditory, and visual language proficiency required to
learn effectively in schools and academic programs;
Academic Language
Informal, Personal, Use of slang, and Repetitive
Social Language
structured and backed up by evidence.
Academic Writing
Three purposes of academic writing?
- To inform
- To argue a specific point
- To persuade
is a reading material that provides information which includes concepts and theories
that are related to the specific discipline.
Academic Text
these can be technical reports like research reports, laboratory reports, feasibility
reports, case study reports, etc.
Informative Text
to convince the reader to agree with the author’s perspective about the issue.
Persuasive Text
purpose of these texts is to elicit a response that matches the author’s own or to
affect the reader, invoking feelings of rejection or sympathy for the subject matter.
Argumentative Text
8 things that academic writing has
- Topic
- Purpose
- Audience
- Experts
- Semi Experts
- Non Experts
- Point of View
- Tone
4 Reading Strategies for Academic Texts
- Preview
- Read
- Summarize
- Review
refers to the form or style of expression in words
Language
use of the actual meaning of words and phrases in their exact sense.
Literal Language
deviates from the conventional order and meaning in
order to convey a complicated meaning.
Figurative Language
engages the reader’s interest; also called as mental pictures
Sensory Details
descriptive language to create mental images
Imagery
sense of sight
Visual Imagery
sense of hearing
Auditory Imagery
sense of smell
Olfactory Imagery
sense of taste
Gustatory Imagery
sense of touch
Tactile Imagery
technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through senses.
Show don’t tell
decision you make will determine the success of your writing.
Making Choices
sensory details draw readers into the world of literature, so use imagery whenever you
want readers to see, smell, hear, taste, or touch elements of your literary piece.
Applications
any technique used to help the author achieve his or her purpose
Literary Devices
uses the same sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or title
Ex.
Purple potions perform positively.
Alliteration
references a person, place, thing, or event in the real world.
Ex.
Is there an Einstein in your class?
Allusion
refers to the identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels
in neighboring words.
Ex.
“I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.”
Assonance
deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.
Ex.
I’m not afraid to die. I’m not afraid to live. I’m not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to succeed. I’m not afraid to fall in love. I’m not afraid to be alone. I’m just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself
for five minutes.
Anaphora
form of wordplay that allows the writer to infuse mystery and a little interactive fun in the
writing so that the reader can decipher the actual word on their own
Ex.
Mother-in-law = Hitler Woman
Anagram
style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by speaker or a writer.
Diction
used in formal situations such as press conferences, presentations etc.
Formal Diction
when your characters are speaking directly to everyday people.
Informal Diction
commonly used for a younger audience and includes newly coined words or phrases.
Slang Diction
when words that are used in everyday life are written.
Colloquial Diction
word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition.
Figures of Speech
comparing two things using the word “like” or “as”.
Ex.
Your voice is like music to my ears.
Simile
uses the direct comparison of two, unlike things or ideas. Doesn’t use “as” or “like”
Ex.
He is a tiger when he fights.
Metaphor
gives human traits to inanimate objects or ideas.
Ex.
The tree is dancing
Personification
a direct address to someone absent, dead, or inanimate.
Ex.
Seven, you are my lucky number!
Apostrophe
substitutes a word that closely relates to a person or a thing.
Ex.
Lend me your ear
Metonymy
uses a part to represent a whole.
Ex.
Jacob has got some new wheel after earning money in just a month.
Synecdoche
makes use of exaggeration for emphasis and effect.
Ex.
I will give you the whole world.
Hyperbole
a contrast between what is said and what is meant.
Ex.
“What a pleasant day!” but it is raining heavily.
Irony
involves a contrast of words or ideas.
Ex.
Speech is silver but silence is gold.
Antithesis
uses a phrase or statement that on the surface seems contradictor but makes some kind of emotional sense.
Ex.
My weakness is my strength
Paradox
makes a deliberate understatement used to affirm by negating its opposite.
Ex.
I cannot disagree with your point of view.
Litotes
putting two contradictory terms in one statement.
Ex.
Beautiful disaster
Oxymoron
word that sounds like what it means. Focuses on sounds
Ex.
Bang of the drum
Onomatopoeia
considered the oldest form of literature; attempts to recreate emotions and experiences in a specific form.
Poetry
According to this person, painting is silent poetry (creation), and poetry is painting that speaks—the observer of the painting receives the message of the act based on its individual criteria, his/ her personal experience and knowledge.
Plutarch
poetry language arranged in
Lines or verses
central idea or message in a poem
Theme
attitude a writer takes toward the subject.
Tone
what the work is about
Subject
group of lines that form a unit of poetry.
Stanza
two - line stanza
Couplet
three-line stanza
Tercet
four-line stanza
Quatrains
five-line stanza
Quintet
six-line stanza
Sester
seven-line stanza
Septet
eight-line stanza
Octave
nine-line stanza
Spenserian
use of figures of speech that create sounds and melody
Sound
