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This document provides an overview of an introductory creative nonfiction class. It outlines the objectives to identify themes and techniques used in texts, contrast creative writing with creative nonfiction, and analyze themes and techniques used. It then provides examples of literary techniques used in creative nonfiction like foreshadowing, imagery, literary genre, figures of speech, symbolism, dramatic irony, verbal irony, theme, and diction. It defines creative nonfiction and provides categories of biographical, autobiographical, and personal essays. Finally, it instructs students to contrast creative writing and nonfiction using a diagram and discusses specific literary techniques like creative license, dialogue, exposition, and irony.

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CNF Lesson 1

This document provides an overview of an introductory creative nonfiction class. It outlines the objectives to identify themes and techniques used in texts, contrast creative writing with creative nonfiction, and analyze themes and techniques used. It then provides examples of literary techniques used in creative nonfiction like foreshadowing, imagery, literary genre, figures of speech, symbolism, dramatic irony, verbal irony, theme, and diction. It defines creative nonfiction and provides categories of biographical, autobiographical, and personal essays. Finally, it instructs students to contrast creative writing and nonfiction using a diagram and discusses specific literary techniques like creative license, dialogue, exposition, and irony.

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Welcome

to Creative Nonfiction Class


Analyzing Themes and
Techniques used in a Text
Objectives:

•Identify the themes and techniques


being described
•Contrast Creative Writing with Creative
Nonfiction
•Analyze the theme and techniques used
in the texts
PANDORA’S BOX
Identify what is being described inside the
Pandora’s box. Arranged the jumbled letters as
your clues to form the correct answer.
It means the presentation of details, characters or
incidents in a narrative way wherein the events
are prepared for or “shadowed forth”.

FORESHADOWING
Sometimes recurring through the text, it is
described as a concrete representation of a sense
impression, a feeling or an idea.

IMAGE
It is a category of a literary composition and being
determined by literary techniques, tone, content,
or length of the text

LITERARY GENRE
These are linguistic techniques that produce
special effect such as figure of speech, narrative
style, or plot
LITERARY TECHNIQUE
It is also known as figurative language that
creates pictures in the mind of the readers or
listeners

FIGURES OF SPEECH
Commonly, it refers to an object, a setting, or an
action representing the character or situation

SYMBOLISM
This type of irony contrasts to what the character
thinks and what the readers think is true.

DRAMATIC IRONY
It is one type of irony in literature wherein what is
said contrasts with what is meant.

VERBAL IRONY
It is the assertion, argument, or the main idea of a
literary work

THEME
This refers to the selection of words in a literary
work.

DICTION
CREATIVE NONFICTION
• Uses literary styles and techniques to create
factual and accurate narrative of events and
individuals
• It is also called literary nonfiction or narrative
nonfiction.
• The patterns of development in writing are done
in narration, explanation, and exposition where
the author is personally engaged to the
experiences conveyed in the text.
3 Broad categories:
1.BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES
➢Full length biography
➢Literary biography
➢Historical biography
➢Profile
➢Character sketch
➢Interview story
2. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES
➢Full length autobiography
➢Muti-volume autobiography
➢Memoir
➢Diary
➢journal
3. PERSONAL AND INFORMAL ESSAY
➢Literary reportage
➢Descriptive essay
➢Reflective essay
THINK-PAIR-SHARE
• Contrast Creative Writing and Creative Nonfiction using the broken
heart as diagram.
CREATIVE WRITING CREATIVE
NONFICTION
________________
________________ __________________
________________ __________________
__________________
________________
__________________
________________
LITERARY TECHNIQUES
CREATIVE LICENSE
•It is a technique in creative nonfiction
wherein the author exaggerates or
alters the objective realities for the
purpose of enhancing and clarifying the
meaning in the context of fiction.
Example:
• A lyricist, for example, might use the phrase
"for you and I" instead of the correct form,
"for you and me," in order to rhyme.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
These techniques are also related with
figurative language wherein the intended
meaning is different from the actual meaning
of the words.
Examples: simile, metaphor, hyperbole,
personification
Example:
• He is as bright as a button.
• He is older than the hills.
•The light danced on the surface of the
water
SYMBOLISM
•The use of objects or images to
represent ideas not only in fiction but
also in nonfiction.
•It is something that is tangible and
visible and the idea that it symbolizes is
abstract although the meaning
sometimes may vary.
Example:
•the color white stands for purity
• black represents evil
• roses stand for romance
• a butterfly symbolizes
transformation
•a dog can represent loyalty
EXPOSITION
•The author interrupts the story
to explain something or to give
important background
information.
Example:
DIALOGUE
•It is a technique where characters
speak to one another and is used
to substitute for exposition.
Example:
IMAGERY
•Refers to language that describes in
detail appealing to the senses like
visual imagery and sound imagery.
•The images are those that can be
seen, touched, heard, smelled, and
tasted.
Example:
•She accepted the bouquet. It was filled
with her favorite flowers - white roses,
purple irises, and soft sprays of baby's
breath. The flowers swayed in the breeze,
almost as if they were dancing in her
delight. He took the tattered leather-
bound book from her.
IRONY
VERBAL IRONY -disparity between the words of
the characters and what they meant.
Example: Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says,
"Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!" ·

DRAMATIC IRONY- is the contrast of what the


character knows and what the reader knows.
IRONY
SITUATIONAL IRONY-the opposite of what
the characters or readers’ expectation.
Example: A traffic cop gets his license suspended
because of unpaid parking tickets.
Let’s Practice!
Identify what literary technique is
being used in the text.
A visual artist might distort a shape,
change a color, or rearrange objects in a
work in order to create a more pleasing or
evocative image.
CREATIVE LICENSE
When Montresor meets Fortunato, he
shakes his enemy's hand and says:
'My dear Fortunato, you are luckily
met. '

VERBAL IRONY
Romeo enters the tomb thinking Juliet is dead
and drinks poison to be with Juliet in death.
Juliet, however, wakes just after he dies. In
her grief, she kills herself.

DRAMATIC IRONY
The unicorn was as pink and
fluffy as cotton candy.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
"I don't want to go home," said Julia. "I like
it here at the zoo. The animals are all so
funny." She began to cry and then wailed, "I
didn't even get to see the elephants!"

DIALOGUE
“Once there was a gentleman who married, for his
second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that
was ever seen. She had, by a former husband, two
daughters of her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her
in all things. He had likewise, by another wife, a young
daughter, but of unparalleled goodness and sweetness of
temper, which she took from her mother, who was the
best creature in the world.”
EXPOSITION

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