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Mainly used in publications and reference |
Academic Writing |
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Conveys specific information for specific audience |
Technical Writing |
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Is writing using imagination. |
Creative writing |
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Mainly fictional and may take the form of poetry, short story, novel or play. |
Creative writing |
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Types of Creative Writing |
1. Poetry 2. Short stories and novel 3. Drama |
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Expression of imaginative awareness of experience through meaning, sound, sound and rhythmic language. |
Poetry |
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Classifications of Poem/Poetry |
1. Lyric Poems 2. Narrative Poems |
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The Greeks read these poems with the accompaniment of musical instrument such as lyre, making them more similar to songs. |
Lyric Poems |
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Narrates a story in verse form. |
Narrative poems |
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These stories are about love and heroic deeds. Epics, ballads are some poems which are considered ______. |
Narrative poems |
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Both forms are used to tell tales. Their main difference lies in the variations in length. |
Short stories and Novel |
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Requires more time to be comprehended fully. |
Novel |
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Both tell about the stories of events that make up the plot of the story that is woven around a theme, develop characters in definite settings, and resolve the conflicts and resolution. |
Short stories and Novel |
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It is intended to be performed in front of an audience and presented on stage. |
Drama |
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Commonly used scholastic composition. |
Academic Writing |
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Mainly used in the publications and references used by teachers and researchers, or in educational conference presentation. |
Academic Writing |
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Conveys specific information about a technical subject for a specific audience. |
Technical Writing |
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Contains facts and is straightforward in its tone or writing commonly addressing its target readers. |
Technical Writing |
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Aims to inform or instruct and has a formal, standardized, and simple use of language. |
Technical Language |
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Discusses factually accurate narratives while employing the use of literary devices commonly found in fiction, thus making them more interesting to read. |
Creative Nonfiction |
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The writing style employed in various mass media such as newspaper, television and radio. |
Journalism and News Writing |
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Languages of Creative Writing |
1. Figure of speech 2. Sound devices 3. Diction |
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What are the 13 Figures of Speech? |
1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Hyperbole 5. Onomatopoeia 6. Apostrophe 7. Metonymy 8. Oxymoron 9. Irony 10. Paradox 11. Synechdoche 12. Understatement 13. Antithesis |
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Used for comparison of two essentially unlike things, often in a phrase. |
Simile |
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"You are like a lily in bloom." |
Simile |
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Use of word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing as that of another, thus making an implicit and direct comparison. |
Metaphor |
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Endows human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. |
Personification |
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Often represented as possessing human form. |
Personification |
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"Hunger sat shivering on the road." |
Personification |
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Also known as extreme exaggeration. |
Hyperbole |
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It employs the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objecst or action they refer to. |
Onomatopoeia |
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Directly addressing an absent/imaginary person or a personified abstraction, as a living entity. |
Apostrophe |
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"Oh my, God!" |
Apostrophe |
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Replaces one word or phrase for another, usually a symbol with which it is closely associated. |
Metonymy |
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"White dove = peace" "Crown = power" |
Metonymy |
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Uses contradictory terms which are combined to make meaning. |
Oxymoron |
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Be able to understand a passage that employs these figures of speech. The entire statement must be read. |
Oxymoron |
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"There was deafening silence in the room when he entered." |
Oxymoron |
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An expression which is the opposite of what is meant. |
Irony |
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"Good rats! You have destroyed my best gown." |
Irony |
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Figure of speech which contradicts itself in the same sentence. |
Paradox |
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"The law brought the thief into prison." |
Synecdoche |
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"Don't worry about me. This cancer is nothing" |
Understatement |
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Contradiction that puts two ideas against each other in balanced way. |
Antithesis |
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"This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." |
Antithesis |
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What are the 3 Sound Devices? |
1. Rhyming Words 2. Alliteration 3. Assonace |
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Same sound found in the poem. |
Rhyming words. |
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______ words add beauty to a poem. |
Rhyming words |
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Repitions of the same sounds or the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. |
Alliteration |
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Repitition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong which are near enough to each other for the sound to be describable. |
Assonance |
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The right choice of words greatly contributes to the development of a composition. |
Diction |
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The selection of the most appropriate word you can use for the written work. |
Diction |
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2 following conditions of diciton. |
1. The right words were chosen for what is written about. 2. The words chosen are appropriate for the theme and tone of the composition. |
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Academic/Scholarly Language |
Formal Diction |
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Conversational Language |
Informal Diction |
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Connotation of words of Diction |
1. Positive 2. Negative |
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The literary device that makes use of imagery to enliven the five basic human senses. |
Sensory experience or sensory detail |
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This is what you can see, and includes visual descriptions. Physical attributes including color, size, shape, lightness/darkness, shadows, and shade are all part of __________. |
Visual Imagery |
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One if the most direct triggers of memory and emotion, but can be difficult to write about. |
Olfactory imagery |
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Literary devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration can help creat sounds in writing. |
Auditory imagery |
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Has textures and many sensations a human being experiences when touching something. Differences in temperature is also part of it. |
Tactile imagery |
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What you can taste and includes flavors. |
Gustatory imagery |
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What are the five basic taste? |
1. Sweet 2. Salty 3. Bitter 4. Sour 5. Umami |
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Kinesthetic imagery is also know as ______? |
Kinesthesia |
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Can be similar to tactile imagrey but deals more with full-body sensations, such as those experienced suring exercie. |
Kinesthetic imagery. |