Creative Non Fiction

• Stanza is the poetic equivalent of a prose paragraph, consisting of a series of lines grouped together and separated from other groups of lines or stanzas by a skipped line.
• An autobiography is your life story from birth to the present, while a memoir is theme oriented with anecdotes from your life that buttress a specific theme.
• Verses are the lines in a poem.
• Imagery is any description that appeals to the five senses, a powerful tool to use when writing.
• Figurative language are words and expressions used in poems and texts to convey various meanings and interpretations from the literal meaning, expressing various meanings and interpretations and showing the underlying symbolism of the theme of the poem.
• Diction refers to the operating language of poetry, language employed in a manner that sets poetry apart from other kinds of speech or writing, involving the vocabulary, the phrasing, and the grammar considered appropriate and inappropriate to poetry at different times.
• Drama is a mode of fictional representation through dialogue and performance, one of the literary genres, which is an imitation of some action.
• Plot is the basic storyline of the play, the structure of a play which tells what happens as the story goes.
• Characters are the main components that move the action of the play forward.
• Dialogue is the conversation between characters, the story is narrated to the audiences through the interaction between the characters.
• Memoir writers often be more selective with the timeline of the story and focus on one particular theme.
• A story is dramatized, which means the characters and events in the story are brought to life through a stage.
• Farce is a nonsensical genre of drama, which often overacts or engages slapstick humor.
• Memoir is a non-fiction book based on the experiences of the writer, nothing more complicated than that.
• Protagonists in tragedy often have a tragic flaw, a characteristic that leads them to their downfall.
• Tragedy often has darker themes such as disaster, pain, and death.
• Drama is a composition of prose or poetry that is transformed into a performance on stage.
• Seven steps in writing a memoir: Narrow Your Focus, Include more than just your story, Put your readers in your shoes, Employ elements of fiction to bring your story to life, Create an emotional journey, Showcase your personal growth.
• Melodrama is a dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
• Musical Drama tells the stories through acting, dialogue, dance, and with music.
• Monologue is a speech made by one character to convey his or her thoughts, although other characters may remain on stage in the scene.
• Soliloquy is a speech made by one character but delivered when he or she is alone on stage.
• Comedy are lighter in tone than ordinary works and provide a happy conclusion, the intention of dramatists in comedies is to make their audience laugh.