Subject: Creative Writing Subject Teacher: Carlyn Argentina P.

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Section: Grade 12 GAS

CREATIVE WRITING

- It is a kind of writing that uses language in imaginative and bold ways.

- Appealing and bewitching way of writing abstract in its own fashion.
- It is an art of sorts, the art of making things up. It’s writing done in a way that is not academic or technical but still attracts an
audience, thrust the audience attention completely.
- It is a writing considered as original and self-expressive. The most artful of all forms of writing.
- It focuses on the writer’s imagination although the writing may be fictional or nonfictional. It usually makes use of idiomatic
expression, figures of speech, symbolisms and other creative devices.

PURPOSES

- Its major purpose is to express one’s thoughts, feelings and emotions.

- To share a person’s anecdote in an entertaining way upon the making.
- To write in a vivid imagination in order to express the thought or feeling a writer can share.
- Writers get the opportunity to learn about reality of humanity through storytelling and poetics.
- The writer is expected to write fascinating poetry, drama, fiction or creative nonfiction where wonders can take place.
- To arouse the imagination and emotion of the readers.
- To evoke intellectual and emotional responses from the readers.

BENEFITS

- Self-expression is its primary benefit. What one has read or seen, heard, smelt, tasted or felt.
- It is a great way to express what you feel as it frees one’s mind and comforts the soul.
- A writer may gain medical and therapeutic benefits.
- From the essence of writing logs, journals and the like, it will help people heal from stresses and traumas.
- Thus, it is an essential tool to help uplift the mood of one who is distressed and distraught.

Other benefits:

1. Thousands of jobs
2. Creative freedom
3. No telecommuting
4. Inspiring

FORMS OF CREATIVE WRITING

1. Fiction
o It is a narrative that springs from the imagination of the writer, though it may be based on actual events and real
people.
o The writer shapes his or her narrative to capture the reader’s interest and to achieve desired effects.
o Major types: Novels and Short Stories.
2. Creative Nonfiction
o It is a prose writing about real people, places and events.
o It is largely concerned with factual information although the writer shapes the information according to his or her
purpose and viewpoint.
o Major types: Biographies, memoirs and essays.
3. Poetry
o It is a language arranged in lines.
o It attempts to re-create emotions and experiences like other forms of creative writing.
o It is condensed and suggestive than prose because it does not include the kind of detail or explanation but tends to
leave more to the reader’s imagination.
o It requires more work on the reader’s part to unlock the meaning.
4. Drama
o It is a writing that develops plot and character through dialogue and action.
o It is a literature in play form.
o It is meant to be performed by actors and actresses who appear on stage, before radio microphones or in front of
television or movie cameras.

ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT

Plot is a sequence of events in a story that force a character to make increasingly difficult decisions, driving the story toward a
climactic event and resolution.

Exposition or introduction. This is your book’s introduction, where you introduce your characters, establish the setting, and begin to
introduce the primary conflict of your story.

Often, the exposition of a story only lasts for a few chapters because readers are eager to dive into the conflict of the story. Don’t wait
too long to introduce your inciting incident and get the ball rolling! Many authors make the mistake of having their exposition be full
of interesting but ultimately unnecessary information about the world in their book. Don’t do this!

As much as you’ll want to make sure your reader knows all the background information, it’s not enjoyable to read pages and pages of
non-action. You should immediately place the reader within the action of your story, and try to weave background information in as
organically as you can here.

Rising action, which reveals the conflict. The rising action normally begins with an inciting incident, or a moment that sets your story
into action. As it progresses, you’ll have multiple moments of conflict that escalate and create tension as the story moves toward the
climax.

Think of it as the portion of a roller coaster where you’re climbing up to the peak. You want to continue to build your story until the
reader is ready to reach the point where everything comes crashing down.

This section will take up the largest chunk of your book and can make or break your story—so be sure to make every moment of
conflict more interesting than the last. Don’t be afraid to raise some questions that won’t get answered until the end of your book.

The climax, or turning point. The climax is the peak of tension, plot, and character in your story. It’s the moment that your reader
has been waiting for—so make it exciting!

Often, this is the point in the story that everything changes, or where your main character is forced to make a life-altering decision. It
should be the point where the reader is unsure where your story is going to go next. To use our roller coaster analogy, imagine you’re
at the top of the peak and everything stops: what’s going to happen? A great climax will leave the readers with this feeling, forcing
them to keep reading until the end.

Falling action. It’s time to wind everything down, nice and easy. Here’s where you address all the other problems and questions
you’ve brought up, filling in the holes. More importantly, this is also where you explore the results of your characters’ decisions.
Think consequences, folks; every choice your characters made have had an effect, and however they resolved the conflict, here’s
where we see what happened after.

Now that you’ve reached the peak of your story, it’s time to start moving toward a more satisfying conclusion. This is the time to start
resolving conflicts and subplots so your story doesn’t feel rushed in the last few chapters. This is also where any conflicts that arose as
a result of the climax can start being resolved.

Resolution or Denouement. Finally, the resolution is the end of your story where you can tie up the final loose ends and bring your
story to its happy or tragic ending. Or, if you’re writing a series, now would be the time to write a cliffhanger and leave them eager for
the next installment! It’s a scene-closure with enough finality to deserve those two words: The End.

CREATIVE WRITING PROCESS

1. Pre-writing. Involves building of ideas, planning the structure, brainstorming.

2. Actual Writing. Known as the rough draft or rough copy, drafting of ideas. In this stage a writer does not think about word-
count, grammar, spelling, punctuation, if they have gone off-topic. They just keep writing.
3. Rewriting. Involves proofreading, editing and revising the draft.

The revision stage is summed up by Hale:

1. Adding
2. Rearranging
3. Removing
4. Replacing

Reasons for writers to revise their papers:

- Ability to make your paper clear to read

- Ability to make your paper feeling valuable
- Sharpening one’s writing style

 Revision plays an important role in writing. It is must that every writer revise their papers before submitting theme. It is good
revising that differentiates a good from a bad writer.
TECHNICAL WRITING VS. CREATIVE WRITING

Technical Writing

o Factual
o Informative, instructional or persuasive
o Clear, precise and straightforward
o Objective
o Specialized vocabulary

Creative Writing

o Fictional and imaginative

o Entertaining, provocative and captivating
o Artistic, figurative, symbolic or even vague
o Subjective
o Generalized vocabulary

SENSORY DETAILS IN WRITING

- Includes sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.

- Writers employ the five senses to engage reader’s interest.
- It gives to the readers a universal feeling.

LANGUAGE USE IN CREATIVE WRITING

1. IMAGERY
o It is a language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the readers and improves
the reader’s experiences through their senses.

Types of Imagery

1. Visual – colors, shapes, patterns, size.

2. Auditory – music, noise, silence.
3. Tactile - texture, movement, temperature.
4. Olfactory – nice fragrances, bad odors.
5. Gustatory – sour, sweet, bitter, salty, acidic.

2. Language Style or Diction

o Diction can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
o Diction or choice of words separates good writing from bad writing.

Functions:

o In literature, writers choose words to create and convey a typical mood, tone and atmosphere to their
readers.
o A writer’s choice of words and his selection of graphic words not only affects the reader’s attitude but also
conveys the writer’s feelings toward the literary work.
o Moreover, poetry is known for its unique diction that separates it from prose. Usually, a poetic diction is
marked by the use of figures of speech, rhyming words etc.

Importance:
o Proper diction or proper choice of words is important to get the message across.
o In contrast, the wrong choice of words can easily divert listeners or readers which results in misinterpretation of
the message intended to be conveyed.

Types of Diction

1. Formal diction. Is where formal words are used in formal situations e.g. press conferences, presentations etc.
2. Informal diction. Is used in informal situations like writing or talking to our friends.
o Colloquial diction uses words common in everyday speech.
o Slang is the use of words that are impolite or newly coined.

3. FIGURES OF SPEECH
o are literary devices that achieve special effect by using words in distinctive ways.
o they provoke a thought process and bring depth to the language.
 o using figures of speech effectively is an art.
o the more you read the more you will understand them.

TWO CATEGORIES:

1. Devices used to create sound or melody

2. Devices used to evoke imagination and emotions

Devices used to create sound or melody

1. Alliteration. This refers to the repetition of an initial consonant sound

Ex. Don’t delay dawns disarming display.

Dusk demands daylight

2. Assonance. This refers to the identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words

Ex. It beats…as it sweaps… as it cleans!

3. Consonance. Like alliteration, this is a repetition of consonant sound but in the final position.

Ex. Once you go black, you can never go back.

4. Onomatopoeia. This is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects they refer to.

Ex. The clock’s tick-tocks remind the old man of his impending death.

Devices used to evoke imagination and emotions

5. Anaphora. Same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

Ex. I’m not afraid to die. I’m not afraid to live. I’m not afraid to fail. I’m not afraid to succeed. I’m not afraid to fall in
love. I’m not afraid to be alone. I’m not afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.

6. Epiphora. What is repeated is a word or phrase at the end of succession of clauses or verses.

Ex. Fie, tie, thou shamestthy shape, thy love, thy wit…

Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.

7. Anadiplosis. This is different in that the last word of a verse or sentence is repeated at the beginning of the next one.

Ex. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

8. Simile. This is a stated comparison usually using like or as between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain
qualities in common.

Ex. On the ring, Muhammad Ali floated like a butterfly but he stung like a bee.

9. Metaphor. This is an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in common.

Ex. My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

10. Personification. This is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or
abilities.

Ex. The picture in that magazine screamed for attention.

11. Hyperbole. This is an extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened
effect.

Ex. I’m so busy trying to accomplish ten million things at once.

12. Understatement. This is figure of speech deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

Ex. Referring to a dent in a car. (it’s nothing. It’s just a scratch.)

13. Metonymy. This is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely
associated.
 Ex. (referring to the movie industry

Hollywood is undeterred by the mass actions against stereotyping organized by the minorities.

14. Synecdoche. This is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for the part.

Ex. Rationalizing guilt is a common trait of white-collar criminals.

15. Euphemism. This refers to the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit

Ex. Most of the informal settlers have been relocated outside Metro Manila.

16. Rhetorical Question. This is a question that needs no answer. Its purpose is to impress to the listener or reader an intended
message.

Ex. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

17. Climax. This is a figure of speech in which a series of phrases or sentences is arranged in ascending order of rhetorical
forcefulness.

Ex. Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country and his God.

18. Anticlimax. This is opposite of climax.

Ex. He has seen the ravages of war, he has known natural catastrophes, he has been to singles bars.

19. Oxymoron. This figure of speech uses incongruous or contradictory terms usually side by side with each other.

Ex. She cannot be trusted. She is a real phony friend.

20. Parallelism. This refers to repeated syntactical similarities introduce for rhetorical effect.

Ex. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

21. Sarcasm. This makes use of words that mean the opposite of what the speaker or writer wants to say especially in order to
insult someone, to show irritation or to be funny.

Ex. Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?

22. Irony. This refers to a statement or situation that is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

Ex. Who would expect that Bill Gates would win a computer in his company’s raffle draw?

23. Paradox. This refers to a statement that appears to contradict itself.

Ex. I must be cruel to be kind.

24. Apostrophe. This figure of speech addresses an inanimate object, an abstraction or an absent person.

Ex. Moon, river…wherever you’re going, I’m going your way.

25. Prosopopoeia. An imaginary character or an absent person is represented as speaking.

Ex. (wisdom speaking) from the mouth of the Most High I came forth, and mistlike covered the earth…