POINTERS TO REVIEW FOR EXAM IN CREATIVE WRITING

CREATIVE WRITING

- Creative writing is any composing that 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. It
is workable for composing, for example, include stories to be viewed as exploratory writing, despite
the fact that they fall under news coverage, in light of the fact that the substance of highlights is
explicitly centered around account and character improvement.

SENSORY IMAGERY

- Sensory Imagery includes the utilization of elucidating language to make mental pictures. In
abstract terms, it is a sort of symbolism; the thing that matters is that tangible symbolism works by
drawing in a reader's five senses. It is an artistic gadget author utilize to draw in a reader's brain on
numerous levels. This investigates the five human detects: sight, sound, taste, contact, and smell.

TYPES OF SENSORY IMAGERY

VISUAL- sense of sight

AUDITORY- sense of hearing

GUSTATORY- sense of taste

OLFACTORY- sense of smell

TACTILE- sense of touch

SOUND DEVICE

- Sound devices are anything writers uses that improves and emphasize the sound in a piece of
writing

SOME FIGURE OF SPEECH

1. Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Example: Betty Botter bought some
butter.

2. Anaphora: The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
or verses. Example: Unexpectedly, we were in the wrong event at the wrong time on the
wrong day.

3. Antithesis: The combination of two different elements to attain equilibrium or balance.

Example: As Abraham Lincoln said, "Folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

4. Apostrophe: Directly stating or calling a non-existent person or an inanimate object as

though it were a living being. It commonly uses an apostrophe as a punctuation. Example:
 "Oh, rain! Rain! Where are you? Rain, we really need you right now. Our town needs you
badly.”

5. Assonance: It is the repetition of the vowel sounds in the structure of sentences or lines.
Example: We shall meet on the beach to reach the “Meach” Concert.

6. Chiasmus: A sentence or line structure where the half of the statement is balanced against
the other half. Example: The noble teacher said teachers should live to teach, not teach to
live.

7. Euphemism: The use of subtle and nonoffensive words to conceal or to replace the offensive
words in a statement. Example: "We're teaching our toddler how to go potty," Bob said. The
use of the word potty is euphemism.

8. Hyperbole: An overstatement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect. Example: I have a ton of homework to do when I get home. I need to go
home now.

9. Irony: It is a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or

showing the concept. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning is the
highlight of irony. Example: Thalia received a very high grade in her quiz resulting that her
mother got mad.

10. Litotes: An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by opposing its counterpart.

Example: A million pesos is no small chunk of change.

11. Metaphor: An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in
common. Example: "All the world's a stage.” of As You Like It

12. Metonymy: A word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated;
Linking words that are related to the word to be replaced. Example: The use of the word
vow instead of wedding, the pen stands for "the written word.

13. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or
actions they refer to. Example: The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.

14. Oxymoron: It is the combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as cruel

kindness; Example: “bitter sweet”

15. 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. Example: "This is the beginning of the end," said Eeyore,
always the pessimist.
 16. Personification: The utilization of inanimate objects or abstraction to associate with human
qualities or abilities. Example: The leaves of the Fire tree are dancing with the wind during
dry season in our country.

17. 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. Example: I
renamed my playlist of The Titanic, so when I plug it in, it says “The Titanic is syncing.”

18. Simile: The comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain
qualities in common using like or as. Example: Michael was white as a sheet after he walked
out of the horror movie.

19. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. Example:
Mark is asking for the hand of our daughter.

20. Understatement: A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a

situation seem less important than it really is. Example: You win 10 million pesos in a lottery.

POINT OF VIEW

- Point of View is the person narrating a story or poem (the Story/poem could be narrated in first
person (I, we), second person (you), or third Person limited or omniscient (he/she, they).

SYMBOLISM

- Symbolism allows a writer to convey something to their audience in a poetic way instead of saying
it outright.

LIMITED OMNISCIENT

- There are two types of third-person point of view: omniscient, in which the narrator knows all of
the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story, or limited, in which the narrator
relates only their own thoughts, feelings, and knowledge about various situations and the other
characters.

THEME

- Theme are the main topic of a story or poem, and the message the author or poet wants to convey
about that topic. Theme is the lesson about life or statement about human nature that the poem
expresses.
– Though related to the concept of a moral, or lesson, themes are usually more complicated and
ambiguous.

– To describe the theme of a poem is to discuss the overarching abstract idea or ideas being
examined in the poem.

– A major theme is an idea that a writer repeats in his work, making it the most significant idea in a
literary work.

– A minor theme, on the other hand, refers to an idea that appears in a work briefly and gives way to
another minor theme.

MOTIF

- A motif is a repeated pattern—an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again
within a particular story.

LITERARY DEVICES

 Simile.

 Metaphor.

 Personification.

 Hyperbole.

 Imagery.

 Symbolism.

 Flashbacks.

 Foreshadowing.

REPITITION

-  Repetition puts multiple literations of a word or phrase in close proximity to each other. In other
words, a word or phrase is repeated to provide clarity and emphasis, highlighting deeper meanings
in the text.

METER

- Meter is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

- Meter is a literary device that works as a structural element in poetry. Essentially, meter is the basic
rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work
REFRAIN

- A refrain is a verse or phrase that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem. This is usually
after the chorus or stanza.

IAMB

- iamb (iambic) unstressed-stressed

TECHNIQUES

 Metaphors

 Similes.

 Analogies

 Imagery

 Personification

 Show don't tell

 Repetition in writing

 Contrast in writing

 The rule of three in writing

 Point of view

POETRY

- Poetry is a form of literature which allows the writers who called to be “poets” to express their
thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas about a particular theme or topic.

OEM

- Found poems are created through the careful selection and organization of words and phrases
from existing text.

*ELEMENT

Setting is the time and place where a story or poem takes place.
 Point of View / Narrative Voice is the person narrating a story or poem (the story/poem
could be narrated in first person (I, we), second person (you), or third person limited or
omniscient (he/she, they).

Characterization is the development of the characters in a story or poem (what they look
like, what they say and do, what their personalities are like, what they think and feel, and
how they are referred to or treated by others).

Dialog or Dialogue is the conversation between the characters in a story or poem. Dialect or
Colloquial Language is the style of speaking of the narrator and the characters in a story or
poem (according to their region, period, and social expectations).

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

Plot is the series of events in a story or poem.

Tone and Voice are the distinctive, idiosyncratic way a narrator has of telling a story or poem
(tone and voice depend on the intended audience, the purpose for writing, and the way the
writer or poem feels about his/her subject).

Style is the way a writer uses words to craft a story or poem.

Mood is the feelings and emotions the writer wants the reader to experience.

Theme and Message are the main topic of a story or poem, and the message the author or
poet wants to convey about that topic.

TRADITIONAL

- Tradition in Creative Writing seeks itself to pass on an attitude of openness where tradition,
used creatively, is not a mere link to the past, but a kind of organic time-machine that widens
the present vision and sees into the future.

TRADITIONAL (Form)

- Traditional Forms are poems with rhyme and with meter.

TROCHEE

- trochee (adjective form, trochaic) stressed-unstressed

a. Never/ never/ never/ never/ never

b. In the/ spring a/ young man's/ fancy/ lightly/ turns to/ thoughts of/ love. (In spite of a few feet
where the stress is debatable, especially foot 3, this poem is generally trochaic, as a look at the
rest of it would show. It is very common to omit the final unstressed syllable in this meter; see c.
under accentualsyllabic above.)
ANAPEST

- anapest (anapestic) unstressed-unstressed-stressed

a. It was man/y and man/y a year/ ago (The variation in the last foot is common.)

b The Assyr/ian came down/ like a wolf/ on the fold, And his co/horts were gleam/ing in purp/le
and gold.

SPONDEE

- spondee (spondaic) stressed-stressed The spondee appears in isolated feet and never as a
dominant meter in an entire poem. It is a convenient way of describing feet in which it is hard to
determine which syllable is stressed (e. g., young man's and hemlocks above) and of describing
passages like the following from sonnets, where Donne uses the spondees to hammer home the
woes people can face in life and Hopkins uses them along with internal rhyme, assonance, and
alliteration for an unusual sound effect.

a. All whom/ war, death,/ age, ag/ues, tyr/annies, Despair,/ law, chance,/ hath slain,/ and you/
whose eyes Shall be/hold God

b. Crushed. Why/ do men/ then now/ not reck/ his rod?

DACTYL

- dactyl (dactylic) stressed-unstressed-unstressed a. This is the/ forest pri/meval, the/

murmuring/ pines and the/ hemlocks (The two stressed syllables in the last foot are required by
the classical Greek form of the epic, which Longfellow is imitating.) b. What if a/ much of a/
which of a/ wind.

RHYME

- A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).

SYMBOLS

- Symbolism takes something that is usually concrete and associates or affixes it to something
else in order to give it a new and more significant meaning. In other words, symbolism allows a
writer to convey something to their audience in a poetic way instead of saying it outright.

THEME

- Theme is the lesson about life or statement about human nature that the poem expresses.
RHYTHM

- Rhythm is the basic beat in a line of a poem.

ASSONANCE

- Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words in a line.

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

- Iambic pentameter uses a type of foot called an “iamb,” which is a short, unstressed syllable
followed by a longer, stressed syllable. A line written in iambic pentameter contains five iambic feet
—hence, pentameter.

DICTION

- Diction is the careful selection of words to communicate a message or establish a particular voice
or writing style. For example, flowy, figurative language creates colorful prose, while a more formal
vocabulary with concise and direct language can help drive home a point.