Creative Writing Quarter 1 Lesson 1 Imagery, Diction, Figures of Speech, and specific experiences to evoke meaningful responses
After going through this lesson, you are expected to: 1. use imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences to evoke meaningful responses from readers 2. analyze the imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences of the specific literary pieces. 3. write short paragraphs or vignettes using imagery, diction, figures of speech, and specific experiences.
What is Creative Writing?
What is Creative Writing? Creative writing is any composing that goes beyond ordinary expert, editorial, scholarly, or specialized types of writing, normally distinguished by an accentuation on account make, character advancement, and the utilization of abstract tropes or with different customs of verse and poetics.
It is workable for composing, for example, include stories to be viewed as exploratory writing, despite the fact that they fall under news coverage, in light of the fact that the substance of highlights is explicitly centered around account and character improvement.
What Is Sensory Imagery? Sensory Imagery includes the utilization of elucidating language to make mental pictures. In abstract terms, it is a sort of symbolism; the thing that matters is that tangible symbolism works by drawing in a reader's five senses. It is an artistic gadget author utilize to draw in a reader's brain on numerous levels. This investigates the five human detects: sight, sound, taste, contact, and smell.
1. VISUAL IMAGERY engages the sense of sight. Descriptions can be associated to Visual Imagery. Physical attributes including color, size, shape, lightness and darkness, shadows, and shade are all part of visual imagery.
Her phone signaled, immediately setting her teeth on edge. She looked at the broken screen, saw his name, and slapped the phone back down on her desk. Armani stretched across her couch, legs twitching excitedly, and he knew he must be dreaming of the kittens he tries to capture every morning when he is at the dirty kitchen.
2. GUSTATORY IMAGERY engages the sense of taste. Flavors are the considerations in gustatory imagery which includes the five basic taste such as sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami—as well as the textures and sensations tied to the act of eating.
3. AUDITORY IMAGERY engages the sense of hearing. Sound devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration can help create sounds in writing.
4. OLFACTORY IMAGERY engages the sense of smell. Simile is common in using olfactory imagery, because it lets writers to compare a particular scent to common smells like dirt, grass, manure, or roses. The use of scents and stinks are common ways to use olfactory imagery.
5. TACTILE IMAGERY engages the sense of touch. The feel, textures and many sensations a human being experiences when touching something are associated in tactile imagery. Differences in temperature is also a part of tactile imagery.
In other references, there is a sixth sense which called Kinesthetic imagery engagesthe feeling of movement. This can be similar to tactile imagery but deals more with full-body sensations, such as those experienced during exercise. Rushing water, flapping wings, and pounding hearts are all examples of kinesthetic imagery.
Among the sensory imagery, which was is easy to use in writing?
Which one is hard for you to use? What could be the barrier in using sensory imageries well in writing?
What is Diction in Writing? Diction is the careful selection of words to communicate a message or establish a particular voice or writing style. For example, flowy, figurative language creates colorful prose, while a more formal vocabulary with concise and direct language can help drive home a point.
What is the purpose of diction in writing? Writers pick explicit words and expressions relying upon the result they're attempting to accomplish. The motivation behind a bit of composing decides its expression.
In writing and fiction composing, authors regularly utilize casual lingual authority and interesting expressions or words utilized for non-exacting implications, similar to comparisons and analogies. On the off chance that a researcher is distributing a paper on their exploration, in any case, the language will be specialized, succinct, and formal, composed for a particular crowd.
In composing a fiction, the language a creator utilizes bolsters the fundamental story components, such as setting. Style sets up when and where a story is set by utilizing language local to that time and spots.
1. In what references or reading materials do you see Formal Diction? 2. What about the informal, colloquial and slang? 3. What do you think is the proper diction in creative writing? Will there be an impact to writing?
What is Figure of Speech ? A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in a distinctive way.
Figurative language is often associated with literature and with poetry in particular. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we use figures of speech every day in our own writing and conversations .
Some Figures of Speech Using original figures of speech in our writing is an approach to pass on implications in new, surprising ways. They can enable our readers to comprehend and remain puzzled by what we need to state.
6. Chiasmus : A sentence or line structure where the half of the statement is balanced against the other half. Example: The noble teacher said teachers should live to teach, not teach to live . Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order. She has all my love; my heart belongs to her .
18. Simile: The comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common using like or as. Example: Michael was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie. 19. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. Example: Mark is asking for the hand of our daughter.
20 . Understatement : A figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is. Example : You win 10 million pesos in a lottery.
Questions: Which of the following figures of speech are familiar to you ? Which from them is mostly used in literary pieces? Can you look/give for some examples?