Creative Writing

• Creative Writing


  Is writing that expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in an imaginative, often unique, and poetic way.
• Technical writing


  The author is writing about a particular subject that requires direction, instruction, or explanation.
• Imagery


  Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
• Imagery is also known as?

  Descriptive Language
• Sensory words


  Words that appeal to our senses.
• Bienvenido N. Santos


  The author of Scent of Apples.
• Imagery needs the aid of figures of speech.


  True
• Visual


  Appeals to the sense of sight through the description of color, light, size, pattern, etc.
• Auditory


  Appeals to the sense of hearing or sound by including melodic sounds, silence, harsh noises, and even onomatopoeia.
• Gustatory


  Appeals to the sense of taste by describing whether something is sweet, salty, savory, spicy, or sour.
• Tactile


  Appeals to the sense of touch by describing how something physically feels, such as its temperature, texture, or other sensation.
• Olfactory


  Appeals to the sense of smell by describing something’s fragrance or odor.
• Kinesthetic


  Appeals to a reader’s sense of motion or movement through describing the sensations of moving or the movements of an object.
• Organic


  Appeals to and communicates internal sensations, feelings, and emotions, such as fatigue, thirst, fear, love, loneliness, despair, etc.
• What does "Scent of Apples" symbolizes?

  Exile, Loneliness, Isolation, and Nostalgia.
• What is the conflict in "Scent of Apples"

  Being an Immigrant.
• Who is the persona in "Scent of Apples"?

  Santos
• Celestino Fabia


  The farmer who asked Santos how Filipino women are. His wife's name is Ruth.
• What does the apple trees remind Santos?

  Home
• The Sounds of Words


  When heard, people can cluster or juxtapose words or portions of words to achieve specific kinds of effects.
• Alliteration


  Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.
• Example of Alliteration


  Peter and Andrew patted the pony at Ascot
• Assonance


  Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.
• Example of Assonance


  He’s a bruisin’ loser
• Consonance


  Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.
• Example of Consonance


  boats into the past
• Cacophony


  A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder.
• Example of Cacophony


  My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies.
• Euphony


  A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language.
• Example of Euphony


  Than Oars divided the Ocean, Too silver for a seam— Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon, Leap, splashless, as they swim.
• Onomatopoeia


  Words that sound like their meanings.
• Example of Onomatopoeia


  boom, buzz, crackle, gurgle, hiss, pop, sizzle, snap, swoosh, whir, zip
• Repetition


  The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. 
• Parallelism


  Re-use of longer phrases that contain a different key word each time.
• Example of Repetition


  I was glad; so very, very glad.
• Rhyme


  Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike.
• Example of Rhyme


  time, slime, mime
• Double Rhymes example


  revival, arrival, survival
• Triple Rhymes example


  greenery, machinery, scenery
• Rhythm


  Unstressed, followed by a stressed syllable.