Creative writing 03.

03

1. The men in question: (Harold Keene, Jim Peterson, and Gerald Greene) deserve awards.

2. Several countries participated in the airlift: Italy, Belgium, France and Luxemburg.

3. 'Only one course was open to us: surrender,' said the ex-major, 'and we did'.

4. Judge Carswell, later to be nominated for the Supreme Court, had ruled against civil rights.

5. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favourite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article 'How
Not to Go Camping.'

6. 'Yes,' Jim said, 'I'll be home by ten.'

7. There was only one thing to do: study till dawn.

8. Montaigne wrote the following: 'A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.'

9. The following are the primary colors: red, blue and yellow.

10. Arriving on the 8:10 plane were Liz Brooks, my old roommate; her husband; and Tim, their son.

11. When the teacher commented that her spelling was poor, Lynn replied: 'All the members of my
family are poor spellers. Why not me?'

Creative writing 04.03

1.When a friend dies, part of yourself dies, too.

2. We took photographs of the patron saint of nail-biters- the Venus de Milo.

3. Picture this: a Neanderthal man deep in the forest gorges on the yummies of his time- fruits,
berries, anything sweet and pluckable.

4. Last week we read 'The Catbird Seat', a short story by James Thurber.

5. Our three children- Larry, Curly, and Moe- have decided to enter show business.

6. When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate.

7. An American's devotion to McDonald's rests in part on uniformities associated with all McDonald's
restaurants: setting architecture, food, ambience, acts, and utterances.

8. Some players hit the ball and stand, dejected, waiting for it to land; others turn away and leave it
to the caddy.

9. Dynamite was lavishly used, and many of San Francisco's proudest structures were crumbled by
man himself into ruins, but there was no withstanding the onrush of the flames.
10.Lila, who lives in a trailer with a parakeet and some scrappy dogs and cats, has been the town fire
warden for almost 30 years.

11. The woman is wearing golden stretch pants, green eyelids, and a hiveshaped head of the hair that
looks both in color and texture exactly like 25-cents worth of cotton candy.

12. Hurling, which has been the national sport of Ireland since legendary times, is to American eyes
like a soccer game played at ice-hockey speed.

13. While on maneuvers in South Carolina, Billy Pilgrim played hymns he knew from childhood.

14. Guiding the ball through the upper chutes, down a runover lane, off the slingshot bumpers to the
flippers, I cradled it there, bouncing it back and forth until I had a perfect shot through the light
spinner.

15. The train, its metal wheels squealing as they spin along the silver tracks, rolls more slowly now.

Creative writing classes 11.03

1. In the great empires of antiquity- Egipt, Babylon, Assyria, Persia- splendid though they were,
freedom was unknown.

2. I wish you would... Oh, never mind.

3. We decided to visit Spain, Greece, Portugal, and Italy's mountains.

4. That tall man, Paul's grandad, is this month's winner.

5. Garlic is used in Italian cooking: it greatly enhances the flavour of pasta dishes. It also enhances the
flavour of eggplant.

6. You are the friend- the only friend- who offered to help me.

7. Spain is a beautiful country; the beaches are warm, sandy, and spotlessly clean.

8. After stealing Tim's car, the thief lost his way and ended up in the chief constable's garage.

9. Joe's gran, a formidable woman, always brought him chocolate, cakes, sweets, and a nice, fresh
apple.

10. Paul's neighbours were terrible, so his brother's friends went round to have a word.

11. I can't see Anne's car; there must have been an accident.

12. I was enraged, because he had given the sixty-four-crayon - Crayola box- including the gold and
silver crayons, to someone from another class.

13. John's uncle's car was found without its wheels in that old, derelict warehouse.

14. The future of psionics [see definition] is in doubt.

15. She always enjoyed sweets, chocolate, marshmallows, and toffee apples.

16. The children's books were all left in the following places: Mrs Smith's room, Mr Powell's office,
and the caretaker's cupboard.

Description of places

- don't describe everything you see. Agglomeration if detail will ruin the reader's interest.

- avoid soft words ("attractive", "charming") and clichés ("a sleepy village", "a dark forest")

- be selective in your use of words. The detail must be significant

Homework assignment: Choose your own topic and write a description of a place (1 page/300
words)

Fond: Times New Roman 12; 1,5 spaced

18th March - bring printed

I reckon it would be rather difficult to write an accurate description of Krakow, so decided to

describe the small village I come from. Miedziana Góra (the name could be loosely translated as 'The
Copper Mountain') can be hardly labelled a town, it is nothing more than just a village, near Kielce,
which is the capital town of the province of Świętokrzyskie. A rural area though it is, it has also
numerous characteristics of a town, such as a square, a health and sports centre, a stadium, and a
market attracting people from the neighbourhood every Sunday. The village is located on a hill,
which not only makes it visible from a distance, but also offers a perfect view into the whole
surrounding landscape, with its golden fields of wheat stretching up to the horizon in summer, only
to get frozen in winter. On the top of the hill there is an old, derelict chapel, hardly ever open
throughout the year. Taking a walk in the forest and you'll encounter numerous tombs and
graveyards scattered around the woods- this was also a place of guerrilla fighting in the second world
war, many of whom died of the Nazi bullets.

Creative writing 25.03

A core statement

This paper describes the philosophy of aestheticism as presented in "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" by
Oscar Wilde.
Our shareholders want your written confirmation that you have completed all their requirements.

Inspectors recommended for the implementation of health safety measures.

If you decide to cancel your application, we will send you a cheque for the amount of your
investment.

John and I, we came back to our hometown for a ten-year high school reunion.

Melba has designed a polyester shirt that never wrinkles when wet.

She bought a nice, large, mahogany desk.

Merdine learned how to dance when she was a teenager.

The ticket collector at the movie theatre asked us for identification to check our age.

Indifferent parents may be the cause of so many teenagers running away from home.

Gwyneth Paltrow is a famous American actress and director. She is a slender, attractive blonde-
haired woman. In this particular picture she wears a modest but elegant, dark dress and she does not
have any jewellery. Her delicate, hidden smile makes her look secret.

Answer this question in your own words: how have the tables have turned? What has happened?
Why suddenly the situation have changed?

The owners of the inn, upon the unexpected visit of a tax inspection, found themselves in dire straits,
but surprisingly, they came out of trouble. The tax officer, at first austere and harsh, had a sudden
change of heart as he had seen the soiled child enter the scene. Lily's wicked trick was the tipping
point, which reversed the situation and prevented the family business from a catastrophe. The man
has successfully been taken for a ride- he took pity on the poor Man Kee who was dressed up as a
beggar only to confuse the officer and shroud the actual matter, namely a serious tax evasion.
Eventually, the inspector refrained from penalising the inn keepers. The business owners, once frail
and helpless, now have got the upper hand and realised how easily they can deceive the state even
further.
nearby - adjective He lives in a nearby town.

near by - adverb The town is located near by the coast. He lives near by.

nee - z panieńskiego

metonymy - A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is
closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

synecdoche - a part used as the whole

periphrasis (circumlocution) - a phrase of an unnecessary length, e.g. "a dog of no definable breed" =
a mongrel; you describe sth which can be named just by one word

litotes - when an idea is expressed by a denial of its opposite

climax - a figure of speech in which words, phrases or clauses are arranged in order of increasing
importance

anticlimax - an abrupt shift from a serious tone to a less exalted one

hypallage - a figure of speech in which a modifier is applied to a sentence it does not belong to

pun - the exploitation of the different meaning of a word or its different sounds for a humorous
effect

1. hyperbole - exaggeration

2.personification - human characteristics attributed to inanimate objects

3.paradox - a seemingly contradictory idea which, however, has some logic and is true

4. metonymy - describing sth using words of similar connotation

5.simile - comparing sth to sth else, e.g. I feel like a plastic bag

6. metaphor - like simile but more elaborate and figurative in meaning, e.g. love's not time's fool

7. anticlimax - a gradual decline of climax

8. pleonasm - repetition, talking about the same thing many times, e.g. ATM machine = just ATM

9. climax - gradual building of tension

10. pun - a linguistic joke employing ambiguity of a word or phrase

11. litotes - describing sth negating the opposite concept, e.g. she is not stupid = she is wise

12. oxymoron - self-contradictory concept, works on the level of single word, e.g. sleeping awake
13. tautology - unnecessary words or phrases

14. irony - just irony :D Look! The father was sober yesterday, just like 3 months ago!

15. synechdoche - a part as a whole, e.g. more hands - more workers