Creative writing

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Based on imagination. Also known as imaginative writing

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Creative writing

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Delivers complex information and instruction. Also intended to explain how something works or to provide instruction

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Technical writing

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A form of reasoning or argument falling within a field of study

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Academic writing

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Academic writing should be?

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True/Factual
Use formal language and prozaic in form
In third person POV

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What are the 4 types of Academic Writing?

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Persuasive writing
Narrative writing
Expository writing
Descriptive writing

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Used to report news stories

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Journalistic writing

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What are the 5 core principles of Journalistic writing

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Truth and accuracy
Independence
Fairness and impartially
Humanity
Accountability

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Used in a professional setting. Conveys relevant information

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Business writing

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Used in literary work and in fiction

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Literary writing

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A characteristic in language that allows the writer/speaker to express more than one way of saying the same thing

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Variation in Language

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The careful selection of words to communicate a message or establish a particular voice or writing style

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Diction

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Involves choosing descriptive, precise words that are polite and proper

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Formal diction

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Used to address a familiar audience

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Informal diction

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It is a literary device that involves the use of descriptive language to create vivid mental pictures

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Imagery

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What does gustatory imagery depict?

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Taste

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What does olfactory imagery depict?

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Smell

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What does visual imagery depict?

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Sight

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What does auditory imagery depict?

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Hearing

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What does tactile imagery depict?

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Touch

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What does kinesthetic imagery depict?

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Movement

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What does organic imagery depict?

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Feelings/Internal sensations

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What is an expression used to make a greater effect on your reader or listener?

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Figure of speech

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What is “an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning” according to the Collins Dictionary?

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Figure of speech

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What compares two things that are different from each other but have similar qualities?

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Simile

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What is used to imply a comparison between two things that have something in common but are in general different from each other?

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Metaphor

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What attributes human nature or human qualities to abstract or inanimate objects?

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Personification

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What is a figure of speech that consists of exaggeration?

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Hyperbole

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What is a sentence that consists of a series of words that have the same consonant sound at the beginning?

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Alliteration

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What is a figure of speech that is used to express a sound?

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Onomatopoeia

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What is a figure of speech that its usage of words conveys the opposite of their literal meaning?

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Onomatopoeia

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What figure of speech is "he is as brave as a lion"

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Simile

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What figure of speech is "his heart is stone"

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Metaphor

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What figure of speech is "her plants silently begged to be watered"

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Personification

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What figure of speech is "I told you a million times not to touch my stuff!"

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Hyperbole

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What figure of speech is "Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers?"

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Alliteration

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What figure of speech is "the bees are buzzing"

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Onomatopoeia

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What figure of speech is "your hands are as clean as mud"

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Irony