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Creative Writing 962D8370-6693-47A9-B69D-C538943CBFEB, Consisting of,…

- - - - Narrates an action or a fable.
        
        Three different types of levels.
        
        Functions
        
        Distributive (actions)
        
        Nodes (the main actions of the story)
        
        Catalyst (the inciting incidents in the story)
        
        Integrative (individual traits)
        
        Any type of information or description.
        
        Clues (implicit meaning)
        
        Narrations
        
        Sequence of the story.
        
        Simple or complex.
        
        Actions
        
        Actants
        
        The analysis of those who play active roles in a narrative.
        
        Three main types of narration.
        
        In media res
        
        Starting the narration in an advanced part of the story (usually the middle).
        
        Ab ovo
        
        The narration starts from the very beginning of the story.
        
        In extrema res
        
        The narration stars at the end of the story.
      - Gerard Genette establishes three main types of narrators.
        
        Heterodiegetic
        
        Narrator that does not take part in a narrative.
        
        Homodiegetic
        
        Refers to a first person type of narration.
        
        Autodiegetic
        
        Narrator situated within the story.
- - - - Lines
      - Quatrain
      - Sestet
      - Tercet
      - Octave
      - Couplet
    - - Enjambemant and Caesura
      - Sound devices
        
        Onomatopeia
        
        Aliteration
        
        Assonance
      - Metre
        
        Regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed (or vice versa) syllables.
        
        Lambic pentameter
      - Rhyme
        
        Perfect rhyme
        
        Internal rhyme
        
        Blank verse
        
        Free verse
  - - - Elegy
      - Ode
      - Sonnet
      - Ballad
      - Language
        
        Figures of speech
        
        Simile
        
        Methaphor
        
        Personification
        
        They create images in the reader's mind
- - - - being performed for an audience
  - - - written to be entertaining
    - - that can be described as serious in nature
    - - A farce is a subcategory of comedy.
    - - that include highly emotional situations
    - - passion of the character is so great he expresses himself in song
  - - - is an example of a musical drama
      - story of high school love between two teens who are completely opposite
- - - - Autobiography/ Memoir
      - Creative non-fiction
        
        Personal essays
        
        Journalistic essays
      - Children's books
      - Drama
      - Epic
      - Flash fiction (micro-fiction)
      - Graphic Novels / Comics
      - Novel (a complex, long-written story)
      - Novella (a short novel)
      - Play (theater)
      - Poetry
      - Screenplay
      - Short story
    - - In this sense, it's a more contemporary name for "literature", including its genres.
        
        Paul Witty and Lou LaBrant say creative writing originates from these needs:
        
        The need for keeping records of significant experience
        
        The need for sharing experience
        
        The need for free individual expression, which contributes to mental and physical health
        
        some elements in literature are:
        
        Action
        
        Character
        
        Conflict
        
        Dialogue
        
        Genre
        
        Narration
        
        Pace
        
        Plot
        
        Point of view
        
        Scene
        
        Setting
        
        Style
        
        Suspense
        
        Theme and Motif
        
        Tone
        
        Voice