Creative writing
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Organize your thought in a better way.
Avoid Verbosity = to express in fewer words.
Avoid unnecessarily repetition= speaking is fine.
Avoid Pedantry = refers to the act of using long and fancy words.
Malapropism= refers to the act of using words whose meaning you don’t know
Opulence= a display of wealth
Fairer sex= female
Archaic words= outdated words like Erstwhile, Me thinks
Colloquialism = damn
Mixed Metaphor = more than one comparision
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Assist = help you
Commence = begin
Establishment = shop
Endeavour= Try (polysyllabic)
Peruse = read
Recuperate = Recover
Propagate = Spread
Pyrotechnic display = firework
Me think = I think
Albite = since
Spouse = wife
Thereof =if
1. Sentence should have one main idea.
2. Climax = rise in intensity
Characteristics of good para
1. Pauses in speech when main is made
2. Ideas should be related to main point made
Introduction to story telling
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Theme is the central message of a story.
Plot = major major part of the story
Setting = is the location or time period where the story takes place
Point of view = from where the story is conveyed or perspective from where the story is told
Plot, theme, setting and point of view
Character
1. Participant in the story
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Protagonist = main character ( Harry Potter)
Antagonist is the main character or force that goes against the protagonist (Voldemort)
Supporting characters = Hermione and Ron
Minor Character = brief role (Rajpal Yadav)
Foil is the character who draws the attention of major character (jacko)
Bad characters don’t go in change
Flat character = stereotype like arrogant or have no other aspect. They are not grey or complex
Round character that evolve (static character)
Pride and prejudice ( her mom is a flat character and actress is dynamic character)
It is good to describe the character.
Plot (skeleton of the story)
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The way the story is arranged.
Plot is deal with Clausal sequence
It is linked with clausal sequence
Exposition = the beginning of plot, it contain background, introduction, setting location time
First exposition then rising action till climax then falling action and end resolution
Conflict propels plot forward.
Conflict something unexcepted
Highest conflict or most intense moment is climax
Resolution is the end or all the thread in the story is tied up
Interpersonal conflict, internal conflict, human vs nature conflict (Jurassic park), human vs
society conflict.
Human vs self conflict, (dexter tv show)
Plot arises when something bad happen
Drama occurs when there is desire + danger ( something unexcepted to happen)
Plot arises when conflict increases.
Change of person occurs in plot.
Point of View
1. POV is the perceptive taken from story from where the story is taken.
2. First person like (I ), Second person (he, she) and third person is the observer who know the
thoughts of director or might not know.
3. Third person , they can go into each character’s head and describe what eachother is thinking
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6. Objective point of view is like a documentary
7. Omniscient is third person.
8. Second person POV, very rare
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Setting
1. The place where the story occur. Time , place, ideas, belief they hold,
2. Setting can also convey a character emotion or their mental state.
3. The setting must include geographical location , time period, and socio economic details of the
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4. Setting is important because it contribute our mood.
5. What is mood? The emotion gives to the reader.
Tone, Mood and atmosphere.
1. Atmosphere is the overall mood, or sense of emotion
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3. Establishing the setting is very important
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5. Digust, revulsion and fascination , gore and disgust, feaful and use of simie are some of the
tones
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The Ending of a story-
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9. Classic dnouement ---harry potter
SHOW AND TELL
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2. Event actually occurring, action is happening.
3. Talking about the things is talking.
4. Showing is more about action and dialogue
This is showing
Guidelines for novel writing-
3. Things to note – make the character and plot more realistic. This will add credibility to the story
Introduction of poetry
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Prose vs Poetry
Prose is too direct like imparting information
Poetry arises emotion
Symbolism, Irony, Metaphor, similie
Technique of poetry
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Personification is when objects, animals etc, are given human qulaities.’
Similie is a direct comparision with help of like or as. ( Waves like cloth in windy air)
Metaphor is an implied comparision between two things without the use of like or as
Metaphor is something which is not normally called.
Cliché is an expression that has become dull due to overuse.
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Metaphor explanation-
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8. Onomatopoeia is the use of words that are associated with what they name or describe
9. Hyperbole is used to convey or give rise to strong feelings or the intense way in which one
perceives something.
10. Oxymoron is term which is contradict each other placed side by side
11. Transferred epithet.
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