Creative Nonfiction #1
Creative Nonfiction #1
Creative Nonfiction #1
Nonfiction
HUMSS 12
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Within the world of creative writing, the term
creative nonfiction encompasses texts about
factual events that are not solely for scholarly
purposes. Creative nonfiction may include memoir,
personal essays, feature-length articles in
magazines, and narratives in literary journals.
At the end of the lesson,
Other literary
Drama genres
Pre-test
Directions: Let’s see how well you can recall some important facts about literature.
In your notebook, write AGREE if you think the statement is true and DISAGREE if it
is not.
Literary
Fiction Mystery Thriller
It refers to literary works Also known as detective This fiction type is
with artistic value and fiction, mystery often characterized by dark,
literary merit. follows a plot with a mysterious and
detective as character or suspenseful plots.
someone playing
detective and tries to
solve a case
Forms of Fiction
Horror Historical
. Written to shock, Involves the creative use
startle, scare, and even of research to be able to
repulse the readers transport readers to
another time and plac
Romance
Created with a light-hearted,
Western
oftentimes optimistic tone, and Stories of this type often
most often a satisfying portray characters and
conclusion, romantic fiction setting of the western
highlights love stories between frontier like cowboys,
people. outlaws, and settlers of
the American Old West.
Forms of Fiction
Bildungsrom Speculative
an Fiction
“a novel of education” or “a novel of a combination of different
formation,” this form highlights the fiction forms like dystopian,
transition or metamorphosis of a science fiction, and fantasy, or
Science
character from youth into
adulthood.
any other combination.
Fiction Fantasy
Classified under speculative has imaginary characters and
fiction, sci-fi uses elements that worlds and may have influences
do not exist in the real world of mythology and folklore which
can be appealing to both
children and adults alike.
Forms of Fiction
Magical
Dystopian realism
depicts a society that
is worse than ours.
The world portrayed in
magical realism is
Realist
Dystopian fiction is
also another type of
similar to our real
world but with added
Literature
science fiction. magical elements portrays a world very
which are considered much like ours, with all
“natural” in which the the elements created
story takes place as truthful as it can be
as it happens in our
world.
Sub-
genres of
Fiction
sub-genres
Short Shorter in length than a novel, a short story is a
01 story
fictional prose work which usually focuses on one
plot, one main character (with a few additional
minor characters), and one central theme.
A. B.
the visual patterning the frequent
of lines of unequal division into stanzas
and shorter length (verses)
C. D.
the possibility of the distinctive use of
unusual shapes, and white space which
draws our eye into
the compressed
essence of feelings
and ideas.
To make meaning out of poems, two broad
approaches can be used:
Narrativ
A. e Poem
It tells a story with an orientation, complication,
crisis, and resolution, or
Cinquai
Acrostic Ballad Chant
n
is a poem of no fixed
a poem which form, but in which one
consists of vertical or more lines are
first letters name of repeated over and over.
the topic while the It is usually meant to
horizontal words be spoken aloud
describe the topic.
Different forms of Poetry
a seven line poem in which the first It is a long narrative
and last lines are opposites or poem on a subject
contrasts. It is written in the shape which is thought to be
of a diamond. great and serious.
Comic Diaman
Verse
Elegy Epic
te
a poem that a poem of mourning
involves humor and to someone’s death.
makes sense.
Different forms of Poetry Originated in Japan and often tells
about nature, it consists of three
a poem with a short unrhymed lines containing 17 syllables
inscription carved on a (5, 7, 5) and portrays a single idea or
tombstone (or written with feeling while having a strong visual
that context in mind) imagery.
Epigra Free
Epitaph Haiku
m verse
It is a short and pointed a poetry that does not conform to
poem, often a witty particular schemes or patterns of
statement in verse or rhyme, meter or form because it
prose which may be doesn’t follow strict rules it has
complimentary, satiric or flexibility.
aphoristic.
Different forms of Poetry
It tells a story with an
is usually brief and orientation, complication
lends itself to comic and resolution eg nursery
effects. rhymes.
Nonsense Nursery
verse rhyme Ode Riddle
Categorized as light verse that Usually celebrating a person,
has structure and rhyme and animal or object, an ode is
invented words, it is often written without the
characterized by fantastic constraints of formal structure
themes, absurd images, artificial or rhyme.
language and humor. 18
Different forms of Poetry
a fixed form, usually containing
a lyric poem that five three-line stanzas and a four-
has fourteen lines of line stanza, with only two rhymes
five beats each. throughout.
Song Villanel
Sonnet Tanka
lyric le
a poem that has A type of Japanese poem similar to
been set to music. haiku, it consists of five lines with the
first and third lines usually having five
syllables and the others seven, making
it a total of 31.
Drama
is a composition in either
verse or prose presenting a
story through pantomime or
dialogue. It contains conflict
of characters, particularly
the ones who perform in
front of the audience on the
stage.
Four distinct types of Drama
A. B.
Comedy Tragedy
a type of dramatic One of the oldest
presentation which forms of drama,
intends to make the tragedy exposes the
audience laugh plight and suffering
through well-composed of humans to the
humorous elements. audience.
Four distinct types of Drama
C.
Melodram D.
Musical
a Drama
This type of drama the story is told
uses a technique through acting and
marked by surge of dialogue, as well as
feelings since through dance and
melodrama music, as well. The
highlights story may be
exaggeration of comedic, though it
emotions. may also involve
serious subjects.
Other forms of Literary
Genres
Other forms of
Diaries/
Literary Journals
1.
Genres both contain records
of experiences by its
writer
2. Memoirs
an author’s narrative of his
or her experiences, which
makes it similar to an
autobiography,
3. Speeches
“the communication
or expression of
thoughts in spoken
words.”
Thanks!
From:
Ms. Lyka Marie C. Cuachin - Creative Nonfiction
Instructor
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