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Contents
Instructional Writing
Story Writing: Combining Styles
Opinionative Writing
Comedy Writing & its forms
Anecdotes Poetry Writing
Parody
What is Poetry?
Limericks
Slapstick
Different Types of Poetry
How to Write Poetry
When you are trying to communicate a sense of a particular object or think it is important that you
think carefully about your choice of words.
To write spy stories writers need to: imagine they are spies, create ruthless enemies and make
careful observations of people and their motives.
Writing an opinion about a topic is a way of informing readers about a point of view that may be
different from their own. Writing an opinionative piece does not mean that the writer can say
anything they want.
Opinionative writing requires the writer to make their point succinctly and with evidence to back
up their views.
Poetry is different from other forms of writing in that it employs rhythm, a pattern and it uses the
"line" as a form of order. It also uses deliberate vocabulary to evoke a response or capture an
idea or feeling.
Poetry is a form of writing that creates an awareness of an experience, idea, thought or emotion
through language arranged and chosen for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
Reading the work of poets and writing your own poems will help us to understand how poems
work and what it really means to be a poet.
There are many different styles of writing and many different ways to write. Sometimes people
write for themselves, a very private audience, and at other times the audience is the whole
world.
There are many different forms of writing and reasons for writing. Everyone has a different
trigger.
Comedy can entertain, educate and enlighten us depending on the style or format used
and the message intended by the writer.
Anecdotes are very short amusing stories that are usually true.
A pun is the humorous use of a word to suggest two or more meanings or the meaning of
another word similar in sound.
Effective communication involves more than just getting your ideas down on paper.
Effectiveness has to do with communicating with your intended readers.
The key to successful persuasive writing is to have a strong opinion and to care about the
issue. Some writers often use humor, satire, even irony and yet they are very successful at
persuading the reader.
Language analysis requires us to discuss how language is used, not just what the texts are
saying. This means us must discuss how the language is used to present the point of view or to
construct the argument.
Analyzing language means to critically assess the language used by people to present their
views. This language can be verbal, that is spoken in words. It can be written, or visual
communication.
The tone can be described as the 'voice' of the piece, the feeling behind the writing or speaking.
Loaded language - This is a very broad term for a whole range of language that is 'colored' or
emotionally charged in some way.
A rhetorical question is a question asked, not with the expectation of an answer, but to give
emphasis to an idea
Exaggeration for the purpose of an argument is hyperbole. It can be seen as a fault of argument
when the exaggeration defies logic or contradicts the facts.
A metaphor is the comparison of one thing with another. Rather than saying that a thing is like
another as in a simile, a metaphor describes something as if it is the other.
The analogy is also a comparison between two things thought to be similar but is an extension of
a simile.
Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in sequential or nearby words.
The term "Conversation poem" is a term Coleridge himself used and has come to
refer to those poems in which the poet is aware of the imagined or real presence of
a loved one, and the poems are partly addressed to these friends in a
conversational tone, concerning the poet's own feelings.
The Eolian Harp' is one of Coleridge's most famous Conversation Poems. In it,
through musing on a musical instrument placed in his casement window, he muses
on the processes of the creation of poetry.
Typical of the Conversation Poems is the movement through the poem by one idea
setting off another that is suggested by it.
SECTION 5: SHAKESPEARE - HIS LIFE
AND WORK
Shakespeare's plays were serious, tragic, funny and violent, even by today's
standards. Shakespeare always explored themes that made people think about
themselves and the world around them
By the end of the 16th Century, it was possible for people to think of "drama" as
something that took place in "theatres". Before then, "drama" took place in a variety
of places and was for all people and not only those who paid for it.
The Rose Theatre was built on the south bank of the Thames, in Southwark, just
outside the city of London in an area renowned for its inns and brothels (or "stews",
called so because of the vapor baths patrons would take to ward off the plague or
venereal disease)
Shakespeare wrote plays to make a living. He had to please the people for whom he
was writing, therefore it is important that we have some understanding of who these
people were and what play going was like.
Although Shakespeare offered very few explicit stage directions in his plays, and
some of those seem to have been written by editors years later, the directions he did
give help us understand both how events appear on stage and also how speeches
are delivered.