Creative Writing

 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.

Five human detects:

 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.

 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.

 AUDITORY IMAGERY engages the sense of hearing. Sound devices such as onomatopoeia and
alliteration can help create sounds in writing.

 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.

 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.

 KINESTHETIC IMAGERY engages the 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.

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.
Different Types of Diction in Writing

1. Formal diction. Formal diction uses grammatical rules and uses proper syntax or the formation of
sentences. It is considered as a professional choice of words which can be found in legal documents like
business correspondences and academic articles.

2. Informal diction. Informal diction is more conversational and often used in narrative literature. This
casual vernacular is representative of how people communicate in real life, which gives an author
freedom to depict more realistic characters. Most of the short stories and novels use informal diction to
make it easier to understand by anyone especially if the target audience is anyone.

3. Colloquial diction. These are expressions which are connected to informal. It is generally representing
a particular region or place or era or period. Contractions in American English such as “ain’t” instead of
isn’t is an example of colloquial expressions, the use of colloquialisms make the writing more realistic.

4. Slang diction. Slang is very informal language or specific words used by a particular group of people.
You'll usually hear slang spoken more often than you'll see it put in writing, though emails and texts
often contain many conversational slang words.

5. Poetic diction. Poetic diction is driven by melodious words that identify with a particular subject
reflected in a sonnet, and make a musical, or agreeable, sound. It generally includes the utilization of
elucidating language, in some cases set to a beat or rhyme.

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

1. Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Example: Betty Botter bought some butter.

2. Anaphora: The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
Example: Unexpectedly, we were in the wrong event at the wrong time on the wrong day.

3. Antithesis: The combination of two different elements to attain equilibrium or balance. Example: As
Abraham Lincoln said, “Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it."

4. Apostrophe: Directly stating or calling a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were
a living being. It commonly uses an apostrophe as a punctuation. Example: "Oh, rain! Rain! Where are
are you? Rain, we really need you right now. Our town needs you badly.”

5. Assonance: It is the repetition of the vowel sounds in the structure of sentences or lines. Example: We
shall meet on the beach to reach the “Meach” Concert.

6. Euphemism: The use of subtle and non-offensive words to conceal or to replace the offensive words
in a statement. Example: “They are taking an early retirement” instead of admitting they got fired.
7. Hyperbole: An overstatement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or
heightened effect. Example: I have a ton of homework to do when I get home. I need to go home now.

8. Irony: It is a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or showing
the concept. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning is the highlight of irony.
Example: Thalia received a very high grade in her quiz resulting that her mother got mad.

9. Litotes: An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by opposing its counterpart.

10. Metaphor: An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common.
Example: "All the world's a stage.” of As You Like It.

11. Metonymy: A word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; Linking
words that are related to the word to be replaced. Example: The use of the word vow instead of
wedding, the pen stands for "the written word.

13. Oxymoron: It is the combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as cruel kindness;
Example: “bitter sweet”.

14. Paradox: a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from
acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-
contradictory. Example: "This is the beginning of the end," said Eeyore, always the pessimist.

15. Personification: The utilization of inanimate objects or abstraction to associate with human qualities
or abilities. Example: The leaves of the Fire tree are dancing with the wind during dry season in our
country.

16. Pun: A statement with a double meaning, in some cases on various faculties of a similar word and
here and there on the comparative sense or sound of various words. Example: I renamed my playlist of
The Titanic, so when I plug it in, it says “The Titanic is syncing.”

17. 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.

18. 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