CREATIVE WRITING Academic Writing

Creative Writing: Introduction

• written texts related to school or the
academe: your school reports,
reflection essays, and the like
"Words are our most inexhaustible source of
• grounded on information and facts
magic. Capable of both inflicting injury. and
• follow mechanics
remedying it."

-Dumbledore

Imaginative Writing = Creative Writing

• inventiveness of situation, perspective,

or story Creative Writing
• original and self-expressive
This is not to say that imaginative or creative
writing is not based on information and facts
because creative writing also involves a lot of
With imaginative writing, you can use your
research.
words to evoke certain emotional and
intellectual responses from your readers. As Fictionists and other creative writers also
Dumbledore said, to inflict an injury or follow mechanics, but when they do break
remedy it. the rules, there is a certain logic.

"Artistic License"

• freedom to apply the writer's personal style

to the form and function of the text (using
words effective in conveying their meaning).

• freedom in all areas of writing (X)

Types of Creative Writing

Imaginative Writing
Technical Writing
Academic Writing

Types of writing can be classified according

to their form and function.

form – appearance
function – purpose

Technical Writing

• the author is writing about a particular

subject that requires direction,
instruction, explanation or
• for occupational fields (reports of
teachers, scientists, forest rangers, etc.)
• grounded on information and facts
• follow mechanics
CREATIVE WRITING Enjoyable sounds
BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, BIRDSONG, AND THE VOICES OF A
Language in Creative Writing
CHORUS.

Noises
THE BANG OF A GUN. THE SOUND OF A BROOM
IMAGERY
SWEEPING ACROSS THE FLOOR, AND THE SOUND OF
BROKEN GLASS SHATTERING ON THE HARD FLOOR
It is the use of vivid language by poets,
novelists, and other writers to create mental The lack of noise
pictures in the mind of the reader. DESCRIBING A PEACEFUL CALM OR EERIE SILENC

Compare:

• I hate the taste of spaghetti. OLFACTORY

• I could not stomach the taste of spaghetti. It is the language that evokes the sensation of
the smell. It is a type of sensory imagery that
Note: The language or vivid use of choice of aims to create an immersive reading
words is one of the most important aspects experience by helping the reader to literally
creative writing. smell the words on the page.
VISUAL The aroma of those sea- steams! I remember
It is language that uses visual cues to help the them as the most delicious and bewitching
readers build mental images in their minds. combinations of all conceivable perfumes.
(sense of sight) Fragrances
PERFUMES, ENTICING FOOD AND DRINK, AND
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is BLOOMING FLOWERS
always the city seen for the first time, in its first
Odors
wild promise of all the mystery and the
ROTTING TRASH, BODY ODORS, OR A STINKY WET DOG
beauty in the world.
GUSTATORY
Color
BURNT RED, BRIGHT ORANGE, DULL YELLOW, VERDANT It is the mental representation of the sense of
GREEN, AND ROBIN'S EGG BLUE
taste. It is the ability of the readers to imagine
Shapes the taste of foods and drinks even without
SQUARE, CIRCULAR, TUBULAR, RECTANGULAR, AND totally consuming them.
CONICAL
I went to this restaurant where I ordered a
Size
MINISCULE, TINY, SMALL, MEDIUM-SIZED, LARGE, AND swiss cheese sandwich and a malted milk.
GIGANTIC They were terrific.
Pattern SWEETNESS IN CANDIES, COOKIES, AND DESSERTS
POLKA-DOTTED, STRIPED, ZIG-ZAGGED, JAGGED, AND
STRAIGHT SOURNESS, BITTERNESS, AND TARTNESS IN LEMONS AND
LIMES.
AUDITORY
SALTINESS IN PRETZELS, FRENCH FRIES, AND PEPPERONIS
It refers to the language that appeals to the SPICINESS IN SALSAS AND CURRIES.
sense of hearing and helps the reader
SAVOR IN STEAK DINNER OR THICK SOUP
imagine sounds. (sense of hearing)

There is no greater solitude than the samurais,

unless perhaps it is that of the tiger in the
jungle.
TACTILE SIMILE

It is the mental representation of the sense of It is the comparison between two seemingly
touch. It is the ability of the reader to imagine unrelated elements by using "like" and "as" to
the sensation of touching something. highlight a common quality or characteristic
both things share.
The stone wall was rough in a virtual or
abstract context, such as imagining the Example:
sensation of running your hand over a smooth Last night, I slept like a baby.
surface or feeling the warmth of the sun in He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree
your skin.
МЕТАРHOR
TEMPERATURE AS IN BITTER COLD, HUMIDITY, MILDNESS,
AND STIFLING HEAT It makes a comparison between two
unrelated things by stating one thing is the
TEXTURE AS IN ROUGH, RAGGED, SEAMLESS, AND
SMOOTH
other thing.

TOUCH AS IN HANDHOLDING, ONE'S SKIN ON THE Example:

GRASS, OR THE FEELING OF STARCHED FABRIC ON ONE'S The pillow was a cloud when I put my head
SKIN on it after a long day.
MOVEMENT AS INBURNING MUSCLES FROM EXERTION, Life is roller coaster.
SWIMMING IN COLD WATER, OR KICKING A SOCCER
BALL PERSONIFICATION

It is a special type of metaphor where human

actions or feelings are ascribed to a non-
CREATIVE WRITING
human thing.
Language in Creative Writing
Example:
My internet connection is giving up on me.
FIGURES OF SPEECH The flowers are dancing under the smiling
sun.
"SPECIAL EFFECTS" for writers because it is a
powerful tool to create VIVID IMAGERY APOSTROPHE
through words.
is a direct address to the dead, to the absent,
FIGURES OF SPEECH or to a personified object or idea.

SIMILE Example:
METAPHOR Lord, hear our prayers.
PERSONIFICATION Wifi! Don't fail me now
HYPERBOLE Car, please get me to work today.
APOSTROPHE
ΟΝΟΜΑΤΟΡΟΕΙΑ
ALLITERARTION
OXYMORON It refers to words that sound like the thing they
ΟΝΟΜΑΤΟΡΟΕΙΑ describe.

Example:
We heard the vroom of the car's engine as it
whizzed by and screeched around the
corner.
HYPERBOLE READING AND WRITING POETRY

These are exaggerated statements or claims POETRY

not meant to be taken literally.
- The “rhythmical creation of beauty”
Example: (Edgar Allan Poe)
He ran as fast as a cheetah when he heard - “the spontaneous overflow of powerful
the food delivery. feelings: it takes its origin from emotion
My back weighs a ton, thanks to all these recollected in tranquility” (William
textbooks! Wordsworth)
I felt my skull crack open after studying the - Has “has musicality” ( Melissa Kovacs)
entire night.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
OXYMORON
THEME
It combines two opposing elements or words
- overarching idea of the poem
into a single phrase or sentence.
- not explicitly stated
Example: - needs motifs
The body was found missing.
MOTIF
Deafening silence
- it is the “central or recurring image or
Known secret
action in a literary work that is shared
Small crowd
by other works.” (Poetry Foundation)
Living dead
Old news SYMBOL
Bittersweet
Alone together - it is “something in the world of the
Original copy senses, including an action, that
reveals or is a sign for something else,
ALLITERATION often abstract or otherworldly.” (Poetry
Foundation)
The repetition of the initial consonant sound of
consecutive or near consecutive words for TONE
effect.
- it is the “poet’s attitude toward the
Example: poem’s speaker, reader, and subject
matter, as interpreted by the reader.
The slithering snake slid sideways silently.
(Poetry Foundation)
The slithering snake slid sideways silently.
MOOD
Pedro picked a pad paper.
- it can be “created by the poem’s
Pedro picked a pad paper. vocabulary, metrical regularity or
irregularity, syntax, use of figurative
language, and rhyme.” (Poetry
Foundation)

RHYME

- it is the “repetition of syllables, typically

at the end of a verse line.”
KINDS OF RHYMES

END RHYME- this is the most common type of SLANT RHYME- type of rhyme with words that
rhyme. It is found in the rhyming of the end have similar, but not identical sounds,
syllables of a line. sometimes called half rhyme.

Example: Grave men, near death, who see with

blinding sight,/
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
gay./
INTERNAL RHYME- this is rhyme within a line of Rage, rage against the dying of the light/
a verse. The word from the middle should
-Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into that
rhyme with a word at end of the line.
Good Night”
Example:
RHYME SCHEME – usually indicated by letters
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I of the alphabet, starting with A. Let’s go back
pondered, weak and weary/ to Humpty.
Over many many a quaint and curious
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A
volume of forgotten lore,/
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. A
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
All the King’s horses, and all the King’s men B
there came a tapping
Couldn’t put Humpty together again! B
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my
chamber door./ STANDARD TYPES OF FEET IN ENGLISH POETRY

EYE RHYME- words look similar but they don’t

sound similar, this is a kind of rhyme that
occurs only in the eyes.

FEMININE RHYME- also called double rhyme.

This is the rhyme that includes two or three
syllables.

Example:

Not warp’d by passion, awed by Rumour;/

Not grave through pride, nor gay through

FOLly;/

An equal mixture of good-Humour/ POETIC LINE

And sensible soft melanCHOly./ Iambic (meter)

MASCULINE RHYME- also called single rhyme. Trochaic (meter)

It is rhyme found in stressed final syllable. Dactylic (meter)
Example: Anapestic (meter)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ Spondaic (meter)
And sorry I could not not travel both/
And be one traveler, long I stood/ Phyrric (meter)
And looked down one as far as I could/ To
where it bent in the undergrowth;/