Creative nonfiction

• Narrative poem - tells a story with an orientation, complications crisis and resolution.
• Lyrical poem- conveys an experience or ideas thought or feelings about subject without necessarily having something happen.
• Acrostic - it is a poem which consist of vertical first letters name of the topic while the horizontal words describe the topic.
• Ballad - it's is a narrative poem which tells a dramatic story
• Chant - earliest forms of poerty a poem of no fixed form.
• Diamante - seven- line poem shape of diamond
• Elegy - it is a poem of mourning to someone death
• Epigram - it is a short pointed poem, often witty statement in verse or prose.
• Limerick- it's often describing everyday events
• Ode - an ode is often written without the constraints of formal structure or rhyme.
• Riddle - indirectly describe a person, place, thing or idea
• Speeches - the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words
• Memoirs - author narrative of his or her experiencez
• Diaries/journal- both contain records of experience by its writer
• Tradegy - one of the oldest form of drama, exposes the suffering of humans to the audience
• Melodrama- surge of feelings and highlights exaggeration of emotions
• Setting - it includes event that happen in a story

  Conflict - it is the struggle that occurs between forces in the narrative

  Fiction- they can be people, animals or even things that live in the story

  Poerty - it is the underlying truth that is conveyed by literary work

  Point of view - it is the perspective from which the story is told
• Round character:

  • Has a leading role in the narrative
  • Multi-dimensional and well-developed, seeming to "come to life"
• Static character:

  • Remains the same throughout the narrative with no character development
• Dynamic character:

  • Undergoes change throughout the story
• Physical setting:

  • Refers to where the story takes place
• Chronological setting:

  • Can be general or specific, setting the time period of the story
• Plot character:

  • Also known as a side character or supporting character
• Freytag's pyramid:

  • Named after the German playwright Freytag
  • Includes the five-part plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement or resolution
• Exposition:

  • Creates the beginning of the story
• Rising action:

  • Includes the happy events that the main character encounters
• Climax:

  • Refers to the turning point of the story
• Falling action:

  • Follows the climax and includes the resulting events that create an emotional response from the reader
• Denouement or resolution:

  • Provides closure and ties up loose ends in the story
• Conflict:

  • The struggle between opposing forces or entities in the narrative
• Round character:

  • Has a leading role in the narrative
  • Multi-dimensional and well-developed, making them seem to "come to life"
• Static character:

  • Remains the same throughout the narrative
  • Shows no character development
• Dynamic character:

  • Undergoes change throughout the story
• Physical setting:

  • Refers to where the story takes place
• Chronological setting:

  • Can be general or specific
  • Sets the time period of the story
• Plot character:

  • Also known as a side character or supporting character
• Freytag's pyramid:

  • Named after the German playwright Freytag
  • Consists of the five-part plot structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement
• Exposition:

  • Creates the beginning of the story
• Rising action:

  • Includes the moments of happiness that the main character encounters
• Climax:

  • Refers to the turning point of the story