CW summative flashcards

Creative Writing

Highly distinctive writing that encompasses all forms of creative writing, is evocative and shows emotion, and includes exposition, conflict, and resolution.

Academic Writing

Writing that uses formal language, highlights objectivity, and includes citations and textual references to indicate scholarly research.

Technical Writing

Writing that commonly focuses on procedures, uses formal and technical language, and is specifically used in some industries (manuals, standard operating procedures, handbooks, etc.).

Goals and Purposes of Creative Writing

Keeping records of significant details and experiences, sharing experiences with a specific audience, and serving as a form of therapy.

Elements of Creative Writing

Image, Voice, World, and Story.

Imagery

The use of vivid and descriptive language to create mental images in the reader's mind.

Diction

The proper selection of words in a literary work that reveals the drama in the text.

Two components of imagery

Imagery and Figurative Language

Auditory

Hearing

Gustatory

Taste

Kinetic

Movement

Olfactory

Smell

Tactile

Touch

Visual

Pictures

Thermal

Temperature

Erotic

Desire

World

The setting of a story that makes the readers share, care about, and appreciate the actions and events that happen within its borders.

Story

The narrative aspect of a text that recreates, enacts, and makes the reader feel the impact.

Voice

The distinct sound the reader hears while reading a text, commonly seen in poetry, and represents the opinions of the writer that need to be highlighted.

Elements of Poetry

Assonance, Alliteration, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, and Rhyme.

Assonance

Alliteration

Consonance

Onomatopoeia

Rhyme

End Rhyme

Internal Rhyme

Eye Rhyme

Simile

A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things using words such as like, so, as.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things without using words such as like, so, as.

Personification

human-like attributes are used to describe inanimate objects or abstract notions.

Example: “An unforgiving cold blanketed the city.”

Metonymy

substitutes a name for the thing or item meant. Some common expressions include “Lend me your ears” where ears refer to an audience or attention. Another is, “Give me a hand” where "hand” means ‘help or assistance.’

Apostrophe

This figure of speech is a direct address or call to some inanimate object or some abstract idea as if it were a living person or some absent person as if it were present.

Example: “Hope! Where are you? Why have you deserted our land?”

Hyperbole

a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to emphasize comparison in a sentence.

Example: “The dishwashers were welcomed by towers of plates after the wedding reception.”

Synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa.

Example: “Malacañang earlier approved the increase in teacher’s salaries.” (In this example, Malacañang is used to represent the president of the Philippines and his office.)

Transferred Epithet

This is a figure of speech in which a modifier (usually an adjective) describes a noun other than the person or object it is actually describing.

Say for example, “Sara has an unhappy marriage.” Marriage can neither be happy or unhappy because it is not capable of feelings. However, in this example, Sara and her husband could be unhappy. It is then a transferred epithet: It transfers the modifier, “unhappy,” to the word “marriage.”

Antithesis

a glaring contrast of words is made in the same sentence for emphasis.

An example would be the words uttered by Neil Armstrong the moment he stepped on the Moon: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Oxymoron

It is a figure of speech which combines two opposing or incongruous words in one phrase/sentence for emphasis.

An example of this use would be the phrases “wise fool” or “deafening silence.”

Litotes

a figure of speech in which a negative statement is used to affirm or declare a positive statement or sentiment.

Example: “The field trip was fine, though. It wasn’t a terrible trip.”

Onomatopoeia

This figure of speech uses sounds from nature or the environment, usually animal sounds, as regular words in a sentence.

Examples: “A loud thud was heard from the room above theirs.”

“They listened as raindrops pitter patter on the roof.”