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CREATIVE WRITING

Differences Between
Technical & Creative
Writing
Writing can be grouped into
five basic types: expressive,
expository, persuasive,
technical, and creative. To
help understand technical
writing, it may help to
compare it to the other types.
Expressive writing
•is a subjective response to a
personal experience—journals
and diaries—whereas technical
writing might be objective
observations of a work-related
experience or research.
Expository writing
• “exposes” a topic analytically and
objectively, such as news reports.
Like technical writing, the goal of
expository writing is to explain or
reveal knowledge, but expository
writing does not necessarily expect a
response or action from the reader.
Persuasive writing
•depends on emotional
appeal. Its goal is to change
attitudes or motivate to
action.
Technical writing
•conveys specific information
about a technical subject to a
specific audience for a
specific purpose.
Creative writing
•is fiction—poetry, short
stories, plays, and novels—
and is most different from
technical writing.
Imagery
It can be defined as a writer or
speaker’s use of words or figures of
speech to create a vivid mental
picture or physical sensation.
Imagery is language used by poets,
novelists and other writers to create
images in the mind of the reader.
Imagery includes figurative and
metaphorical language to improve the
reader’s experience through their
senses.
Types of Imagery
 Auditory imagery appeals to the sense of hearing.
 Gustatory imagery appeals to the sense of taste.
 Kinetic imagery conveys a sense of motion.
 Olfactory imagery appeals to the sense of smell.
 Tactile imagery appeals to the sense of touch.
 Visual imagery is created with pictures (many
visual images are pictures of things representing
well-known sayings or phrases).
Example 1

Imagery using visuals:


•The night was black as ever, but
bright stars lit up the sky in
beautiful and varied constellations
which were sprinkled across the
astronomical landscape.
•In this example, the experience
of the night sky is described in
depth with color (black as ever,
bright), shape (varied
constellations), and pattern
(sprinkled).
Example 2
Imagery using sounds:
•Silence was broken by the peal of
piano keys as Shannon began
practicing her concerto.

 Here, auditory imagery breaks


silence with the beautiful sound of
piano keys.
Example 3
Imagery using scent:
•She smelled the scent of sweet
hibiscus wafting through the air, its
tropical smell a reminder that she was
on vacation in a beautiful place.
The scent of hibiscus helps describe
a scene which is relaxing, warm, and
welcoming
Example 4
Imagery using taste:
•The candy melted in her mouth and
swirls of bittersweet chocolate and
slightly sweet but salty caramel
blended together on her tongue.
 Thanks to an in-depth description of
the candy’s various flavors, the
reader can almost experience the
deliciousness directly.
Example 5
Imagery using touch:
•After the long run, he collapsed in the
grass with tired and burning muscles.
The grass tickled his skin and sweat
cooled on his brow.
 In this example, imagery is used to
describe the feeling of strained
muscles, grass’s tickle, and sweat
cooling on skin.
•Imagery is found throughout
literature in poems, plays,
stories, novels, and other
creative compositions.
•Although the word “imagery”
most often brings to mind
mental images, imagery is not
always visual; it can appeal to
any of the five senses.
Symbolism
 Carl Jung defined a symbol as “a term, a name,
or even a picture that may be familiar in daily
life, yet that possesses specific connotations in
addition to its conventional an obvious
meaning.”
• Symbols can be based on culture, such as a
country’s flag (stars and stripes=USA) , or
religion (the cross=Christianity), or other
things.
DICTION

• Diction = word choice – A study of


diction is the analysis of how a writer
uses language for a distinct purpose and
effect, including word choice and figures
of speech.
Examine the following when considering word choice:

• Informal Diction (personal writing) e.g. bug,


folks, job, kid, boss, get across
• Formal Diction (academic or literary writing)
e.g. germ, relatives, position, child, superior,
communicate
Types of Diction

•Colloquial words – conversational


language – Is there dialect?
•Slang – highly informal
•Jargon – the special language of a
profession or group (lawyer talk,
technical talk)
Ways to Characterize Diction

• General – look, walk, sit, cry, throw,


dog, boy

• Specific – gaze, stride, slump, weep,


hurl, black Labrador retrieve, tall
boy
• Monosyllabic words – single syllable
words
• Polysyllabic words – more than one
syllable in the words
• The greater the number of
polysyllabic words, the more
complex the passage.
• Connotative words – emotional meaning
(wedding gown, cop, bureaucrat )
• Cacophonous words – harsh sounding
words (maggot)
• Euphonious words – pleasant sounding
words (butterfly)
• Abstract words – not material;
representing a thought (pleasant tasting)
• Concrete words – real or actual; specific,
not general (sour tasting)
interest. Using
your smartphone or computer, listen
to the song in any video or music
streaming
website you prefer. After listening,
read and accomplish what is
described below.
triggered by the music you have chosen.
Think of where you are when you last
heard the music and what it meant for
you. Include any images
that come into mind. Be sure to make
your paragraph interesting by using
different
types of imagery and diction.
“When I “Photograph “California “Chasing
Was Your ” King Bed” Pavement
Man” by Ed by Rihanna s”
by Bruno Sheeran by Adelle
Mars

“Too Good “Looks Like “Let Me Be “Thank


At We Made It” The One” God I
Goodbyes” Shania Twain by Jimmy Found
by Sam Bondoc You”
Smith by Mariah
Carey

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