Lesson 1 - Forms of Creative Writing and Classification and Type of Poetry

1. CREATIVEWRITING

2. Course Description
The course aims to develop practical and creative
skills in reading and writing; introduce students to the
fundamental techniques of writing a fiction, poetry,
drama; and discuss the use of such techniques by
well-known authors in a variety of genres. Each class
will be devoted to the examination of techniques and
to the workshop of student’s drafts towards the
enrichment of their manuscripts. Students learn how
to combine inspiration and revision, and to develop a
sense of form.

3. CREATIVEWRITING
VS. OTHERWRITING

4. ACADEMICWRITING
■ Style commonly used in scholastic composition
■ Used in the publications and references used by
teachers and researchers, or in educational
conference presentation
■ Textbook, modules, essay, research paper,
dissertation and thesis

5. TECHNICALWRITING
■ Conveys specific information about a technical subject
for a specific audience
■ Often contains facts and is straightforward in its tone of
writing, commonly addressing its target readers
■ Aims to inform or instruct and has a formal,
standardized, and simple use of language
■ Memorandum, manuals, police reports, financial report,
organizational chart, policies

6. CREATIVE NONFICTION
■ Discusses factually accurate narratives while
employing literary devices though commonly found in
fiction
■ Autobiography, biography, testimonies, travelogue,
blogs

7. JOURNALISMAND NEWSWRITING
■ Writing style employed in various mass media such as
news paper, television, and radio
■ Feature story, news story, sports story

8. CREATIVEWRITING
■ Writing using imagination
■ Mainly fictional and may take the form of poetry,
short stories, novels, and drama

9. FORMS OF CREATIVEWRITING
1. POETRY
- A poem is a collection of spoken or written words that
expresses ideas or emotions in a powerfully vivid and
imaginative style
- an expression of imaginative awareness of
experience through meaning, sound, and rhythmic
language, with the purpose of evoking emotional response

10. TWO CLASSIFICATIONOF POETRY
a. Lyric Poetry – “lyricus” or “of/for the lyre”
- tells the author’s feelings and emotion
- these short poems were originally accompanied
by music
b. Narrative Poetry – tells a story of an event in verse
- it has beginning, middle, end
- may or may not rhyme
- long or short

11. TYPES OF LYRIC POETRY
■ Ode – formal lyric poem about serious theme
Ode to a Nightangle byJohn Keat
■ Elegy – poem with serious reflection about death
O Captain! My Captain! ByWaltWhitman
■ Sonnet – fourteen-line lyric poem
Laura by Francesco Petrarch
■ Song – set to music and to be sung
■ Simple lyric – pastoral poem that describes scenes and
objects of nature

12. TYPES OF NARRATIVE POEM
■ Epic – long narrative poem about hero
Iliad and Odyssey
■ Ballad – tells ordinary people’s story usually in four line-stanza
The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
■ MetricalTale – narrative poem written in verse that relates to real or
imaginary events in simple, straightforward language
The CanterburyTale by Geoffrey Chaucer
■ Metrical Romance –deals with theme such as love, chivalry, and
adventure
Sir Gwain and the Green Knight

13. 2. SHORT STORY
■ Shorter and less elaborate than novel
■ Focus on a single event
■ Can be read in one sitting
■ The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

14. 3. NOVELS
■ Long story written prose consist of episodes
■ Requires more time to comprehend fully
■ More events
■ Harry Potter byJ.K. Rowling

15. 4. DRAMA
■ Similar to short story and novel
■ Intended to perform in front of a live audience and
presented on stage
■ Has dialogue and movements
■ Hamlet byWilliam Shakespeare

16. Identification
1. It discusses factually accurate narratives.
2. It is used in the publications and references used by teachers and researchers, or in educational
conference presentation.
3. It is a writing style employed in various mass media such as news paper, television, and radio.
4. It is a collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or emotions in a powerfully vivid
and imaginative style.
5.This classification of poem was originally accompanied by music.
6. It tells ordinary people’s story usually in four line-stanza.
7. It is intended to perform in front of a live audience and presented on stage.
8. It is a formal lyric poem with serious theme about love and respect.
9.This poem is set to music and to be sung.
10. It is a writing focuses in a single event or conflict.