creative writing(finals)

• Nonfiction - comprises written works based on real events. The most common nonfiction genres are biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essay, and journalism
• creative nonfiction - uses the techniques of literature such as narrative, plot, characterization, etc. It involves writing form personal experience or reporting on other peoples’ experience.
• biography - is a detailed third person account of another person’s life story. It contains basic information about the subject’s life—like their place of birth, education, and interests. .
• autobiography - the biography of oneself narrated by oneself
• memoir - history or record composed from personal observation and experience
• travel writing - writer describes a location and its people, customs, and culture.
• food writing - genre of writing that focuses on food and includes works by food critics, food journalists, chefs and food historians.
• profile - Focused narrative about the character.
• personal essay - an autobiographical essay that relates a significant personal experience of the essay writer
• literary journalism - a type of journalism that is generated with the help of a reporter ' s inner voice and a writing style based on literary skills
• movie review - you 'll need to discuss more than the premise and your general opinion of the project
• drama - originated from Greek word “dran” which means “to do”.
• dramatist - writer of a play
• theater - where the enactment of the play is done
• aristotle's six essential elements: plot, theme, characters, dialogue, music/rhythm, spectacle
• plot - refers to the story line of the play
• theme - pertains to the message of the play
• characters - refers to the people, or sometimes animals, portrayed by the actors in the play
• dialogue - words or lines of the characters that are meant to delivered verbally by the actors
• music/rhythm - rhythm of the actor's voices as they speak/the variation in the manner by which dialogues are delivered
• spectacle - anything that can be seen onstage during the performance of the play such as set design, costume and special effects.
• convention - techniques or methods that dramatists and directors adhere to in creating the way the play is written and interpreted
• genre - pertains to the type of play
• audience - viewers of the play
• major elements of play: literary, technical, performance elements
• script - it is the written product of the playwright
• plot - story line of the play
• plot structure of drama: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
• exposition - initial elements that introduce the setting of the play
• rising action - events after exposition
• climax - turning point of the story
• falling action - pertains to the series of events after the climax
• resolution - final scene of the play
• characters- persons, animals, and other entities that are portrayed in a play
• dialogue - pertains to the conversation between and among the characters play
• monologue - long speech delivered by a single character
• soliloquy - speech that lets the character speak to himself/herself
• stage whisper - delivered by an actor to another and is audible but, for a dramtic effect, is not heard by the actors onstage
• aside - unheard by the actors onstage
• dramatic irony - the members of the audience are fully and clearly aware of the significance and implications of the characters words, actions, or situations except the character himself/herself