CNF

• Creative nonfiction


  Story telling of a very high order through the revelation of character and the suspense of plot, the subtle braiding of themes and resonance, memory and imaginative research, precise and original language
• Fiction


  • A series of imagined facts which illustrates truths about human life, commonly called "stories", can either be short (short story) or rather long (novella or novel)
• Drama


  • Uses the traditional conventions of fiction but has an additional distinctive characteristic of being performed and mounted on stage
• Both fiction and drama have a pattern
• Foreshadowing


  Narrative device used in fiction and drama as a guide or hint at what is to happen next in the story
• Irony


  Narrative device where words that are uttered, either by the author or characters in the story, are opposite of what they really mean
• Flashback


  Narrative device using past events that will help the readers understand the present
• Conflict


  Narrative device that provides and showcases the opposing objectives of the protagonist and the antagonist, or inside the protagonist
• Deus ex machina


  A person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrasted solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
• The language of poetry is quite different from the language of prose (fiction and drama)
• Poetry


  • Attempts to achieve beauty
• Imagery


  The use of images in poetry, the essential representation of an experience or object that is perceived through the senses and presented in language in a way that we can see, smell, hear, taste, touch, or feel as our imagination allows
• Figurative language


  Devices that help beautify or make the language more poetic than it already is, such as simile, metaphor, personification, and onomatopoeia
• Sound


  Poetry is as much an oral as it is a visual form, meant to be recited and read aloud, with the rhyme scheme and meter adding to the sound of the poem
• Theme


  The central idea, the thesis, the message a story conveys, or a generalization or an abstraction from it
• 3 Major categories of Poetry

  Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
• Poetry


  Is musical, melodic, and rhythmical.
• Poetry


  Imaginative, or makes use of strength and imagination.
• Poetry


  Makes use of language that is metaphorical or symbolic, not direct.
• Poetry


  Makes use of brevity and conciseness
• Poetry


  Uses a more intensified, focused, and intricate language
• Carolyn Force and Philip Gerard


  states that the literariness of Creative Nonfiction distinguishes it from deadline reportage, daily journalism, academic criticism, and critical biography.
• Pattern of Fiction and Drama

  • Exposition
  • Conflict
  • Rising Action
  • Climax
  • Falling Action
  • Resolution