Creative Nonfiction

• Literature - Derived from the Latin "Literatura" meaning "writing form with letters." Literature is most commonly refers to works of the creative imagination, including poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and some instances, song.
• Genres - A genre is a particular type of literature, painting, film or other form which people consider as a class because it has special characteristics.
• Literary Genre - A category of literary composition determined by literary techniques, tones, context, or even (as in the case of fiction) length.
• Traditional Genre - Is a genre that stated in the oral tradition, myth, fables, epics, ballads, legends, folk rhymes, folk tales, fairy tales, trickster tales, tall tales, commutative tales and pourquoi tunes are part of this genre.
• Literary Convention - The features of a literary work that define its genre. These elements can be tropes, arus, cliches, or certain devices that help distinguish how your audience will classify your literary test. Helps to categorize a text within its specific literary genre, while a literary device is a figure of speech that heightens imagery or textual interpretations
• Narrative Convention - The core elements of any types of fictional narrative.
• Fiction - A written stories about people and events that are not real: literature that tell stories which are imagined by the writer.
• Character - person in a work of fiction/characteristics of a person (protagonist/antagonist).
• Conflict - opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot moves (external/internal).
• Setting - refers to place, time, weather condition, and even or atmosphere.
• Point of View - how the character is told - more specifically who tells it.
• Plot - it is the sequence of events in a story or a play.
• Theme - the central dominating idea.
• Poetry - Is a form of literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience as a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. It is written in verse and emphasizes the rhythmic use of words to create imagery.
• Imagery - It appeals to the senses.
• Rhythm - A regular pattern of sounds or movements.
• Sound - The rhythm goes along with the general sound as it easy to remember. (euphony and cacophony).
• Density - Is how much is aid in how little space. The ability to use metaphor not to comform to traditional grammar styles, and incorporate sounds and rhythmic is unique poetry.
• Line - One sentence and since poetry does not comform to grammar rules. No one is obligated to use a period the end of a line is like a period would be in pros.
• William Shakespeare - An English playwright, poet and author. Sonnet 18 is the most famous poem written, among the most renounced sonnets ever written.
• Nonfiction - The branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinion or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, biography, history, and essay.
• Allusion - A literary device that references a person, place, thing, or event in the real world. You can use this to point a clear picture or to even connect with your readers.
• Diction - Is a literary device, that's the choice of words or style used by the writer in order to covey their message.
• Formal Diction - This is when the word choice is more formal or high-class. Oftentimes, writers use formal diction as a literary device when more educated individuals are speaking or the content is for those with higher notes.
• Informal Diction - When your character (or you are writing a nonfiction) are speaking directly to everyday people, this type of diction would be use as its more conventional.
• Slang Diction - Commonly used for a younger audience and includes newly coined words or phrases. An example of this would be use of the word, "fleek" or other new slary phrases.
• Colloquial Diction - When words that are used in every life are written. These may be different depending on the culture or religion's present in the writing.
• Alliteration - A literary device that uses the same letters on sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence or title.
• Allegory - A figure of speech where abstract ideas are described using characters, events, or other elements.
• Colloquialism - Are expression, words, phrases that are used informal, everyday speech including slang.
• Euphemism - A any terms that refer to something impolite or unpleasant.
• Flashbacks - Can occur as a sudden through sequences, a hazy dream or a vivid memory. It can be announced or unannounced in the time of narrative.
• Foreshadowing - The authors places elements within the writing that gives clues about what will happen in the future of the story.
• Imagery - When you use usually descriptive or figurative language in your writing. Think of it more like showing versus telling in writing where you use more sensory language versus blunt, plain words.
• Personification - A literary device where you give human like qualities to non-human elements.
• Juxtaposition - Means placing contrasting elements meet to one another in order to emphasize one or both including words.
• Metaphor - A comparison between two things that are not like and replaces the word with another word.
• Simile - Comparison between two things that are not like replaces the word with another word but uses "like" within it.
• Onomatopoeia - A word or phrases that shows you the sound something makes. Since we can't hear books. This literary devices is best used to paint a clear pictures and include the sense of writing in your hearing.
• Symbolism - The use of a situation or element to represent a larger message, idea, or concept.