LESSON 4 AND 5 CREATIVE WRITING

• FICTION - Product of author's imagination
• FICTIONWRITERS- construct imaginary worlds, typically with symbolism, thematic elements and aesthetic value.
• FICTIO - fashioning or forming , describes the Creative WORLD-BUILDING CENTRAL
• NONFICTION- a literary genre consisting of historically accurate narratives about real people or events
• *Subgenre of fiction*

  FANTASY - concentrates on imaginary elements (the fantastic)
• *Subgenre of fiction* FOLKLORE- encompasses traditional beliefs, stories, customs, and legends, transmitted orally, from generation to generation.
• most common folklore


  fairy tales, legends, myth, tall tales and fables
• *Subgenre of fiction* MYSTERY stories focus on a puzzling crime or circumstances that needs to be solved.
• *Subgenre of fiction* Mystery


  Latin, Mysterium (a secret thing)
• *Subgenre of fiction* HISTORICALFICTION - set it a real place, during a culturally recognizable time.
• *Subgenre of fiction* REALISTICFICTION- stories that could have actually occured to people or animals in a believable setting.
• *Subgenre of fiction* ROMANCE - primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and usually has an emotionally satisfying and realistic ending
• *Subgenre of fiction* SCIENCE FICTION - abbreviations SF or sci-fi , deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals
• *Subgenre of fiction* THRILLER - genre of fiction with numerous , often overlapping subgenres, including horror.
• *elements of fiction*

  CHARACTER - refers to person, animals or inanimate objects, or any that posseses life and give life to the story
• POINT OF VIEW - refers to the angle of narration, it indicates who is the narrator
• Four types of POV

  First-person POV, Omniscient Third, Limited Omniscient Third, Objective Third
• The narrator presents the POV of only one character consciousness

  First person Point of View
• OMNISCIENT THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW - The narrator is all knowing and takes the reader inside the character's thought.
• LIMITED OMNISCIENT THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW - The narrator takes the reader inside one (or at most very few characters) but neither the characterr or reader has access to the inner lives pf any other characters in the story.
• OBJECTIVE THIRD PERSON POINT OF BIEW - does not see into the mind of any character , rather ir reports to the reader what's happening without their thoughts.
• PLOT - series of events that comprise the story
• parts of plot

  Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Denouement
• exposition - introduction to the characters
• RISING ACTION - event that reveals the conflict
• CLIMAX - highest point of the story, also called as the "turning point*
• FALLING ACTION - the event when things start to wing down
• Denouement - End of the story
• SETTING - refers to the time and place in which the narrative takes place.
• CONFLICT - The struggle between two entities. adversary.
• 5 main types of conflict

  man vs man, man vs himself, man vs nature, man vs supernatural, man vs society
• MAN VS MAN - the protagonist and antagonist set up
• MAN VS NATURE - the conflict between man and nature
• MAN VS SOCIETY- society wll put pressure on the character
• MAN VS SUPERNATURAL - may mga kapangyarihan
• Man vs self - kalaban sarili
• MAN VS TECHNOLOGY - major theme in science fiction,kalaban ay technology
• THEME - The idea or concept of the author, message of the story
• *techniques and literary devices*

  FLASHBACK - when ghe narrator goes back in time for specific context
• FORESHADOWING - giving clues what will happen in the future