CNF Reviewer

• Creative Nonfiction -It is expository in nature that deals with facts and reality and aims to explain a theory, idea, and point of view.
• Creative Nonfiction Example:

  Autobiography -a story of a person's life written by himself from his own point of view, according to his personal style. In its pure form, it is written from a person's memory of his past.
• Creative Nonfiction Example:

  Biography -this is a story of the life of a real person written by someone else.
• Creative Nonfiction Example:

  Essay -a piece of writing which often written from an author's personal point of view.
• Fiction -This refers to any imaginative fact and the idea of life. The themes and conflicts raised in some stories are similar in a real-life context.
• Types of fiction:

  Chick lit - a type of fiction that addresses issues of modern womanhood, often humourously and lightheartedly. The genre became popular in the late 1990's.

  It sometimes includes romantic elements but is not generally considered a direct subcategory of the romance novel.
• Types of fiction:

  Flash Fiction - it is a style of fictional literature of extreme brevity.

  There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category.

  Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as thousand words to be flash fiction.
• Types of fiction:

  Speculative Fiction -is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian, and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and visual arts.
• Types of fiction:

  Novel - this is a lengthy narrative story separated ingo series of chapters.

  It possesses complexity of plot and has the capacity to introduce numerous characters in different parts of the story.It also contains more elaborate settings.
• Types of fiction:

  Short Story -this is a short narrative story which focuses on a single plot and characterized by it's different elements.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Setting -this refers to the time, place and condition in which the story takes place.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Characters -these are the persons, animals, or things moving around the plot of the story.
• 2 Major Types of Characters:

  Protagonist -this refers to the main character in the story. He/she is the hero/heroine of the story.
• 2 Major Types of Characters:

  Antagonist -He/She is the villain who opposes the main character in the story.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Plot -this refers to the series of actions and events that happened in the story.
• 5 Parts of the plot:

  Exposition -this is the part that sets the mood of the story wherein characters, setting and background are being introduced.
• 5 Parts of the plot:

  Rising Action -it is the part of the plot that marks the onset of the major conflict in the story.
• 5 Parts of the plot:

  Climax -This is the part that builds the highest tension and is considered to be the story's highest point of interest.
• 5 Parts of the plot:

  Falling Action -this marks the revelation and realization of the characters leading to the resolution of the story's main conflict.
• 5 Parts of the plot:

  Denouement - it is the final resolution and outcome of the story.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Conflict -this refers to the struggle of complication involving the characters of the story.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Point of View -this pertains to the voice used by the writer as a narrator of the story and how it was seen or told.
• Omniscient -the author allows the inner thoughts and feelings of the main characters to be presented in the text.
• First Person Point of View -the author is the one observing and speaking in the story.
• Third Person or Limited Point of View -the author chooses a character as a narrator who will be the central observer and detects action inside the story.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Mood -this refers to the atmosphere and tone of the story.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Theme -This pertains to the central idea which conveys truths and values according to the author's purpose and perspective on the human's experience.
• The Elements of a Short Story.

  Symbols -These are the images and objects used in the story to stand for something than themselves.
• Poetry -It is a literary type normally written in lines that are grouped into stanza.

  It contains measures, rhyming or sound pattern, and tone.
• Elements of Poetry:

  Sense -it is revealed through words, elements, and symbols.
• Diction -This refers to the denotative and connotative meanings of the lines in poetry.
• Images and Sense Impressions -These refer to the choice of words used to create sensory images which appeal to the reader's sense.
• Elements of Poetry: 

  Sound -it refers to the creative use of words by poets to imitate sounds.
• Rhythm -This is the order alteration of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence.
• Meter -This refers to the duration, stress, or number of syllables per line.
• Rhyme Scheme -This is the formal arrangement of rhymes in a stanza of the whole poem.
• Elements of Poetry:

  Structure -it refers to the arrangement of words and lines to fit together and the organization of the parts from the whole.
• Word Order -This is the natural arrangement of words in each verse.
• Punctuation -This is the use of punctuation marks, to clearly indicate emotions.
• Shape -This refers to the poet's choice of contextual and visual design, omission of spaces, capitalization, and lowercase.