Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Is any writing that is original, artistic, and self-expressive. Its purpose is to entertain and share human
experiences, and it does so by expressing feelings or thoughts that are borne out of the imagination as
you can see in poetry, fiction, and plays.
CREATIVE WRITING
• SUBJECTIVE
• GENERALIZED VOCABULARY
Technical writing
• FACTUAL
• OBJECTIVE
• SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY
ACADEMIC WRITING
• CONVEY KNOWLEDGE
• Poetry
• Plays
• Memoir
A. IMAGERY
B. DICTION
C. FIGURES OF SPEECH
• SENSORY EXPERIENCE INCLUDES SIGHT, SOUND, TOUCH, SMELL, AND TASTE. WRITERS EMPLOY
THE FIVE SENSES TO ENGAGE A READER'S INTEREST.
• ADJECTIVES BRING WRITING TO LIFE AND PULL THE READER INTO THE TEXT AND HELP
ACTIVATE HIS OR HER IMAGINATION.
• COLOR, SUCH AS: BURNT RED, BRIGHT ORANGE, DULL YELLOW, VERDANT GREEN, AND
ROBIN’S EGG BLUE.
• SIZE, SUCH AS: MINISCULE, TINY, SMALL, MEDIUM-SIZED, LARGE, AND GIGANTIC.
AUDITORY IMAGERY DESCRIBES WHAT WE HEAR, FROM MUSIC TO NOISE TO PURE SILENCE. AUDITORY
IMAGERY MAY INCLUDE:
• ENJOYABLE SOUNDS, SUCH AS: BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, BIRDSONG, AND THE VOICES OF A CHORUS.
• NOISES, SUCH AS: THE BANG OF A GUN, THE SOUND OF A BROOM MOVING ACROSS
THEFLOOR, AND THE SOUND OF BROKEN GLASS SHATTERING ON THE HARD FLOOR.
• FRAGRANCES SUCH AS PERFUMES, ENTICING FOOD AND DRINK, AND BLOOMING FLOWERS.
B. DICTION
FIGURES OF SPEECH
SIMILE
METAPHOR
PERSONIFICATION
SYNECDOCHE
METONYMY
USING ANOTHER WORD WHICH IS CLEARLY IDENTIFIABLE OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE IDEA REFERRED
TO.
HYPERBOLE
EXAGGERATION
OXYMORON
1. VIRTUAL REALITY
2. Dark days.
UNDERSTATEMENT
MAKING THE SITUATION SEEM LESS IMPORTANT OR SERIOUS THAN IT REALLY IS.
PARADOX
A PHRASE OR STATEMENT THAT SEEMS CONTRADICTORY BUT MAKES SOME KIND OF SENSE.
IRONY
• literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the
use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively, or as a genre of literature.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Elements of poetry can be defined as a set of instruments used to create a poem. They help bring
imagery and emotion to poetry
1. STANZA
• A unit of lines grouped together.
• Similar to a paragraph IN A SHORT STORY.
TYPES OF STANZA
2. Tercets - stanzas of three lines. The three lines may or may not have the same end rhyme. If all three
lines rhyme, this type of tercet is called a triplet.
Tercet:
Triplet:
Quatrain- stanzas of four lines which can be written in a SPECIFIC rhyme scheme.
Rhyme Scheme:
Rhymes are types of poems which have the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end
of two or more words most at the ends of lines.
Alternating –
2. TONE/MOOD
refers to the writer's attitude towards the subject of a literary work as indicated in the work itself.
3. IMAGERY
Representation of the five senses: sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell.
4. THEME
Talks about the central idea, the thought behind what the poet wants to convey.
5. SOUND DEVICES
5.1. Onomatopoeia:
The use of words that imitate the sound of the idea it denotes.
5.2. alliteration:
the repetition of consonant sounds, especially in the initial position of the words.
5.4. consonance: the identity of consonant sounds of in words without the identity of vowel sounds.
Ex.
• Black-block
• Slip-slop
• Creak-croak
• 5.5. anaphora: the repetition of word or words at the beginning of two or more successive
verses.
• Ex.
6. SYMBOLISM
A poem often conveys feelings, thoughts and ideas using symbols, this technique is known as
symbolism. certain symbolS SUCH as colors, places, times, and animals Have BEEN attached
themselves to GIVE LIFE TO POETRY.
Sleep: death.
Seasons: age
spring--youth,
autumn--middle age,
COLORS:
RED – ANGER
BLACK – DEATH
white – purity