CREATIVE WRITING SENSORY DETAILS

Objecti
We can express through:  Concrete image or description of the subject
ves-
1. Oral/Speaking Sense of touch
2. Non-verbal (signs & symbols) facts
Sense of smell
3. Writing
Subjecti Sense of taste
Research journal poetry

Report drama
ve – Sense of sight

Fiction proposals
opinion Sense of hearing

s IMAGERY

 It appeals to the fve senses

Technical Creative writing
writing (IMAGINATION) Taste – Gustatory
(FACTS)
Forms/samples Report, Fiction, poetry, Smell – Olfactory
proposal, drama
Hearing – Auditory
research
journal Sight – Visual
Objectives Inform, Entertain, inspire
instruct Touch – Tactile
Content Facts, Imagination FIGURES OF SPEECH
straight-
forward  Aiother meaiiig or literal meaiiig
(adults,
professional, SIMILE – like, as, resemblance to, similar to (indirect
educated) comparison)
Audience Specifc Broader
Metaphor – direct comparison but doesn’t need to use
audience audience
like, as
Diction Formal Informal
(language used) Hyperbole – exaggerated statement
Structure Systematic Artistic
Personifcation – giving life to inanimate object

INFORMAL (DICTION) Onomatopoeia – mimic sounds

1. CONTRACTION (won’t instead of would not,
etc.)
2. SLANG (telly means telephone)
3. COLLOQUIALISM (wanna, gonna, etc)
Academic Writig
- different disciplines
2 types of Essay
1. Documented Essay- references/sources
2. Standard Essay- personal experiences or P.O.V
Remember: CONTRACTIONS ARE ALLOWED
Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds. (double
trouble)
Alliteration – repetition of consonant (tongue twister)
Apostrophe – calling someone that is not in the
moment
Metonymy – atribute (for example the land belongs to
the crown
Synecdoche – a part is put for the whole (i.e. fiy sail
for fiy ships)
ELEMENTS OF POETRY - William Shakespeare (prominent writer of
sonnet)
Theme – main thought or meaning of the poem

Tone – attude or mood of the poem (joyful, love, etc)

Rhyme – link between music and poetry

 True Rhyme – it occurs on the words

 Internal Rhyme – it occurs within the lines
 Off rhyme/Slant rhyme – the sound of words
are alike

Line – line of words

Verse – line of a poem arranged in a metrical patern

Stanza – unit of poetic lines

 Couplet – two
 Tercet – three
 Quatrain – four
 Quintet – fve
 Sestet – six
 Septet – seven
 Octave – eight

Meter – measured accents and syllables arrangement. It

is the systematic sound patern of a poem.

 Accentual meter – same number of stresses,

varied count of syllables
 Syllabic Meter – same number of syllables,
varied count of stresses
 Accentual-Syllabic Meter – same number of
syllables, both stressed and non-stressed,
arranged in fxed order
 Iamb – da-DUM
 Trochee – DUM-da
 Dactyl – DUM-da-da
 Anapest – da-da-DUM
 Spondee – DUM-DUM

Poetry – rhythmic patern

Different forms of Poetry

 Haiku – 3 lines, 17 syllables

- 5–7–5
- About nature
- Matsuo Bashō (prominent writer of haiku)
 Cinquain – 5 lines
- Tells something about your subject
 Sonnet – 14 lines
- 3 quatrain and 1 couplet