CREATIVE WRITING /

IMAGINATIVE WRITING

Creative Writing / Imaginative

Writing
is anywritingthat 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 doesnt 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 Terms 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 Shakespeares 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 works 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 Iagos
and Desdemonas very different ways of speaking
in Othello. We can also refer to a poets diction as
represented over the body of his or her work, as in
Donnes or Hughes 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 childrens. 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 uses in speaking or writing.

B. Elements for Specific Forms

1) CONVENTIONAL FORMS

short tagalog poems

tanaga
diona

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, evenIdidnt 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 authors 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 owners 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 didnt 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 pass,
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 Nights
Dream; Macbeth
2. Edward Albee Whos 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. Charlottes 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

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