Creative Writing

Ballad - narrative poetry that narrates a story, and it is intended to be sung, and was handed down by word of mouth before the sixteenth century

Elegy - form of lyric poetry focuses on mourning for the dead

Haiku - The type of poem originated from Japan.

Limerick – The kind of a well-structured narrative poem, comprised of a cinquain and has a rhythmic pattern of A-A-B-B-A..

Diona - an ancient form of poetry that is composed of 7 syllables for every verse/line, 3 verses/lines for every stanza, and has a single rhyme
scheme

Sonnet – A poem that has 14 lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme

Ode - subtype of lyric poem that is medium or long in length, focused on a significant subject

Epic - is a lengthy kind of narrative poem which centers on historical or legendary hero’s victorious feat.

Creative Writing - composition goes beyond ordinary expert, editorial, scholarly, or specialized types of writing, normally distinguished by an
accentuation on account make, character advancement, and the utilization of abstract tropes or with different customs of verse and poetics.

Gustatory – the following imagery engages the sense of taste

Tactile - imagery engages the sense of touch

Formal - types of diction in writing uses grammatical rules and uses proper syntax or the formation of sentences

Poetic Diction - This diction is driven by melodious words that identify with a particular subject reflected in a sonnet, and make a musical, or
agreeable, sound.

Colloquial Diction - the expressions which are connected to informal. It is generally representing a particular region or place or era or period

Informal Diction - A type of diction that is more conversational and often used in narrative literature

Alliteration - is the repetition of an initial consonant sound (Betty Butter bought some butter)

Apostrophe - ‘Oh, rain! Rain! Where are you? Rain, we really need you right now. Our town needs you badly.”

Simile - comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common using like or as

Pun - A statement with a double meaning, in some cases on various faculties of a similar word and here and there on the comparative sense or
sound of various words

Personification - The utilization of inanimate objects or abstraction to associate with human qualities or abilities

Paradox - A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that
seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory

Hyperbole - An overstatement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

Stanza - structure of poem is a section of a poem named for the number of lines it contains or the grouping of lines or the succession of lines
arranged together according to substance

Tone - the attitude expressed in a poem that a reader sees and feels

Verse - a line in traditional poetry that is written in meter .

Rhythm - to the basic beat in a line of a poem

Meter - is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Rhyme - It is the repetition of similar sounds

Form - Pertains to the style of the poem or how the poem is structured
Trochee - A type of feet that is stressed-unstressed

Anapest - It is a type of feet that unstressed-unstressed-stressed

Dactyl - A stressed – unstressed-unstressed type of feet

Narrative - type of poetry tells a story, often make the voice of a narrator

Lyric- A kind of poem expresses the strong emotions and thoughts of the persona in the poem.

Descriptive - type of poetry is a type of poetry which describes the environment that the persona is in

Limerick - call to kind of well-structured narrative poem, comprised of a cinquain, and has a rhythmic pattern of A-A-B-B-A

Sonnet - subtype of lyric poem that is medium or long in length, focused on a significant subject

Ode - is a lengthy kind of narrative poem which centers on historical or legendary hero’s victorious feat

Epic - is a lengthy kind of narrative poem which centers on historical or legendary hero’s victorious feat

Ballad - a type of narrative poetry that narrates a story, and it is intended to be sung, and was handed down by word of mouth before the sixteenth
century

Plot - According to the elements of fiction this refers to the events – often in sequence – which portray characters facing conflicts

Conflict - the problem or situation a character or characters face in a story or poem

Setting - is the element of fiction that tells when and where the events occurred

Characters - the people in the story