Creative Nonfiction

 Literary Criticism

Parts of Critique - Introduction, Summary, Analysis, and Conclusion

Critical Approaches:
1. Structural/Formalist Approach - Literary Elements, Literary Devices, Structure
2. Historical Approach - history
3. Moralist Approach - about lessons/moral.
4. Feminist Approach - women empowerment
5. Marxist Approach - something about society.

 Speech
Speech - the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words.

Types of Speech:
1. Persuasive Speech
2. Motivational Speech
3. Special-Occasion Speech - wedding, birthday, etc.
4. Oratory Speech - can change someone’s behaviour.

Two Kinds of Speech: Mass Speech and Public Speech

Parts of Speech: Title, Introduction, Body, Conclusion

Types of delivering a speech: Impromptu, Extemporaneous, Memorized, and Manuscript

 Micromemoir
Micromemoir or Flah memoir is a short , well written memoir. These range from 400 - 1000 words.

 Journals
Journal is a form of autobiographical writing including a day-by-day chronicle of events, usually a
personal and intimate record of events thoughts kept by an individual.

* Sports Journal
* Dream Journal
* Goals Journal

 Letter
A communication in writing to another person or a group of persons; correspondence.

A specialized form of letter, called an epistle is a formal document prepared for public reading.

 Food Writing
The writer crafts stories about food and cuisine using literary devices.

Food writing is writing that focuses on the topic about food. Includes work by food critics and
historian.
 Literary Journalism
- It is a type of creative nonfiction. Also known as Literary Reportage or Narrative Journalism.
- Factual reporting with some of the narrative techniques and stylistic strategies traditionally
associated with fiction.

* Tell your story using the third-person point of view.

* Make use of your writing reveals a universal truth or message.
* Be sure your writing informs and enlightens.
* Conduct extensive research on your topic.

How to write:
1. Learn about your subject through personal reportage.
2. Outline your story before writing it.
3. Include a lead and ending.
4. Use your distinctive voice.
5. Write a true story about a person, place, event, or idea.
6. Write Dramatic scenes – action dialogues, details, setting
7. Use literary devices.

 Essay

- Reflective essay means you’ll reflect on how you’ve changed or how an event changed you. You
must reflect on your experience and really outline how you have changed as a person and how your
life has been affected or impacted.

Types of Reflective Essay

1. Literature Reflective Essay this type of essay asks you to summarize and then respond to a piece
of literature in order to understand it better and relate it to your own life and experiences.
2. Professional Reflective Essay
3. Educational Reflective Essay
4. Personal Growth Reflective Essay

 Biography
Basic information about the subject's life—like their place of birth, education, and interests.

A biography may also chronicle relationships with family members, as well as major events in the
subject's childhood and how those influenced their upbringing.

 Autobiography
An autobiography is a literary genre that is a self-written account of a person's life.

Autobiography, the biography of oneself narrated by oneself.

 Reportage
Reportage is defined as the act of telling news or what is reported as news.

A reportage consists of a headline, an introduction, a body and a conclusion.

 Personal Narrative
The purpose is to describe a story in your life, detailing the account with dialogue, the main events,
setting, descriptions of people, and other personal observations.

 Travelogue
A piece of writing about travel. A talk or lecture on travel usually accompanied by a film or slides. A
narrated motion picture about travel.

 True Narrative
It is an objective account of factual events like a journalistic report.
It contains accurate and well-researched information that makes it interesting to read.

 Blog
A blog is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public
consumption.

A blog (a shortened version of “weblog”) is an online journal or informational website displaying

information in reverse chronological order, with the latest posts appearing first, at the top. It is a
platform where a writer or a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.

 Figures of Speech

Synecdoche - a part that represent a whole.

ex: A water (part) represents liquid (whole).

Irony - a contradiction on what is being said or stated.

ex: the water is wet.

Idioms - composition of words that has a different meaning.

ex: break a leg - goodluck!

Alliteration - repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or
syllables.

Assonance - same vowel sounds repeats within a group of words.

Personification - giving human attributes to non-living objects.

ex: the flower is dancing

Repetition - the repetition of words in a sentence.

ex: Run! Peter, run!

Onomatopeia - words that pertains to sound.

ex: “Bang!”

Hyperbole - words that expresses exaggeration.

ex: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.