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.
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. The text in italics are some examples
of lines using 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.
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.
The food tasted good.
The sweet pondant icing melted on my tongue. The word delightful came to mind.
Summer has always tasted like hot chocolate to me. His kisses tasted like strawberries
under the sun.
AUDITORY IMAGERY engages the sense of hearing. Sound devices such as
onomatopoeia and alliteration can help create sounds in writing.
Erick sat alone at the bench nearest the main door so he wouldn't miss Via. The room
was noisy. The clang of heavy dishes glided from the kitchen. Ice tinkled as it settled in
his water glass. His watch read 9:30. She wasn't coming.
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.
The scent of “latik” when my mother cooks rice cake is really nostalgic to me.
The street going to their house stinks of manure and the courtyard of urine, the
stairwells stank of moldering wood and rat droppings.
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.
When we quickly plunge into the cool water, it took our breath away and raised goose
bumps to our arms. We had had been swimming in this pond since we were kids.
In other references, there is a sixth sense which called 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.
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.
Different Types of Diction in Writing
Different styles of diction impact how different ideas are expressed.
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.
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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.
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: Unexpetedly, 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, "Folks who have no vices have very few
virtues."
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 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. 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.
7. Euphemism: The use of subtle and non-offensive words to conceal or to replace the
offensive words in a statement. Example: "We're teaching our toddler how to go potty,"
Bob said. The use of the word potty is euphemism.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Litotes: An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by opposing its
counterpart. Example: A million pesos is no small chunk of change.
11. 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
12. 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. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the
objects or actions they refer to. Example: The clap of thunder went bang and scared my
poor dog.
14. Oxymoron: It is the combination of contradictory or incongruous words such as
cruel kindness; Example: “bitter sweet”
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.”
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.