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LITERARY
PEN DOWN YOUR IMAGINATION

Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems. Writing for the screen and stage, screenwriting and playwriting respectively, typically have their own programs of study, but fit under the creative writing category as well. Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities, in addition to, or in lieu of its apparent meaning. Elements of poetry:

Imagery-word pictures Form o Meter o Stanza o Rhyme o Rhythm o Pattern/Style

o Personification o Hyperbole o Irony o Apostrophe Musical Devices o Onomatopoeia o Alliteration o Consonance o Assonance o Repetition Theme o Symbolism

Tone-mood Persona-speaker Figurative Language o Simile o Metaphor

Fiction is any form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). In contrast to this isnon-fiction, which deals exclusively in factual events.

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Elements of Fiction Plot o Exposition o Rising action o Conflict

Man vs Man Man vs Society Man vs Himself Man vs Nature Man vs Fate, Supernatural, Technology

o Climax o Falling Action o Resolution Setting o Social context o Mood Characterization o Direct o Indirect Point of View o First person o Objective o Omniscient o Limited Omniscient Theme Literary Techniques o Irony o Mood Verbal Dramatic Situational

o Satire
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Horatian

Named for the Roman satirist, Horace, this playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour. It directs wit, exaggeration, and self-deprecating humour toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. Horatian satire's sympathetic tone is common in modern society.

Juvenalian

Named after the Roman satirist Juvenal, this type of satire is more contemptuous and abrasive than the Horatian. Juvenalian satire addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humour. Strongly polarized political satire is often Juvenalian.

o Suspense o Foreshadowing Chekhovs gun Prophecies/Omens Red herring

o Flashback

Character origin flashback Internal analepsis External analepsis

In Medias Res-into the middle of things

o Symbol
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Universal

Constructed

TIPS FOR CREATIVE WRITERS :

Do some short exercises to stretch your writing muscles. If youre stuck for ideas, carry a notebook everywhere and write down your observations. Work out the time of day when youre at your most creative. Dont agonize over getting it right. HAVE FUN!

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