CNF

• AUTOBIOGRAPHY

  covers the life of the writer from birth to the present.
• BIOGRAPHY

  covers the entirely of another person's life
• FEATURE STORY

  very short story (500-2000 words)

  " make interesting : tell a story"

  We also want entertainment, enlightment, and emotional engagement with what we read in the papers.
• REPORTAGE

  eyewitness account, in-depth reportinh, interpretative reporting, and investigative reporting

  derived from latin reportare which means to report or announce news
• PERSONALITY PROFILE

  a story via interview

  The PROFILE is a portrayal of what is most interesting or compellinh about that person
• TRAVELOGUE

  we write travel essays or travel narratives to chronicle the journey
• REFLECTION ESSAY

  it is an exercise in introspection

  It explores your personal thoughts, feelings, and opinions about a topic and how it affects you
• TRUE NARRATIVE

  it is a true story with plot, action, suspense characters and setting which delivers a theme
• BLOGS

  it is a short form for the word weblog

  Updated online personal journal or diary
• LITERARY ELEMENTS

  help the author to express their thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotion in the most aesthetic way
• ESSAYIST

  writing an essay
• Allusion - refers to external people, events or things. There are people who are not part of the story itself. ex: Don't act like a romeo in front of her.
• Alliteration - where an initial consonant sounds being repeated in words of a phrase or a sentence ex: I saw thousands of bats, screeching and screaming
• Diction - the specific choice of words used help determine the style in which the person is speaking or writing. It can be formal, informal, colloquial. Slang or poetron
• Euphemism - a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring right to something unpleasant or embarrassing. ex: no one wants to be with him because his attitude, unattractive and substandard to women's choice.
• Epistrophe - the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of the sentence. ex: I want the best, we need the best and we deserve the best.
• Flashback - interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point of the story.
• Foreshadowing - a clue at what will happen next or some point of the story
• Juxtaposition - two contrasting concepts, people or events directly side by side in the story.
• Motif - when recurrent element, image, sound, or concept is found throughout the story, to help to develop the theme or central message.
• Oxymoron - a combination of contrasting or opposite words.
• Paradox - sentence/phrase appears contradictory but implies some kind of truth.
• Consonance - repetition of consonant sounds within the words in line/sentence.
• Assonance - repetition of vowels sounds in every word line.
• Forms of Literary Journalism: - feature article - reportage - personality profile