Activity No. 1 - Creative Writing

I.
DEFINE THE FOLLOWING BASED ON THE MEANING PROVIDED OR IN YOUR OWN

UNDERSTANDING.
1. ALLUSION - an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a

part of another text.
2. ANACHRONISM - is a literary device that places someone or something
associated with a particular time in history in the wrong time period.
3. OVERSTATEMENT - Overstatement is when you use language to exaggerate your
intended meaning.
4. UNDERSTATEMENT - An understatement is when you represent something as
less than what it is
5. HYPERBOLE - from a Greek word meaning “excess,” is a figure of speech that
uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis. It is the opposite
of understatement.
6. SYNCOPE - in writing refers to the omission of syllables or sounds from a word in
order to contract the word
7. SYMBOLISM - is a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people,
marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal
meaning.
8. ANTIPHRASIS - is a literary device which uses words or phrases to convey the
opposite sense of their real meanings.
9. ADYNATON - is a form of hyperbole in which a statement is so extreme as to
imply that it's impossible.
10. ANTHOLOGY - a book or other collection of selected writings by various authors,
usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or on the same subject
11. APORIA - is an expression of insincere doubt.
12. ANTHIMERIA - is a rhetorical term for the creation of a new word or expression
by using one part of speech or word class in place of another.
13. ANTANACLASIS - is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated
within a sentence, but the word or phrase means something different each time
it appears.
14. ANTIMETABOLE - is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in
transposed order.
15. ANTITHESIS - can be defined as "a figure of speech involving a seeming
contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced
grammatical structure.
16. ASSONANCE - is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
17. ALLEGORY - a symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly
set forth in the narrative.
18. ANALOGY - is a literary device often used in literature and poetry to make
connections between familiar and unfamiliar things, suggest a deeper
significance, or create imagery in the reader's mind.
19. ANAPHORA - repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive
phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
20. AMPLIFICATION - means the writer is adding more information to a sentence.
21. APOSTROPHE - refers to a speech or address to a person who is not present or to
a personified object.
22. APHORISM - is a brief saying or phrase that expresses an opinion or makes a
statement of wisdom without the flowery language of a proverb.
23. ANAGRAM - are a type of game with words in which the letters of a word, name,
or phrase are rearranged to form different words.
24. PALINDROME - is a type of word play in which a word or phrase spelled forward
is the same word or phrase spelled backward.
25. ADAGE - is a wise saying that, over time, becomes widely accepted as a general
truth.
26. ANAGNORISIS - in a literary work, the startling discovery that produces a change
from ignorance to knowledge.
27. AUDITORY - imagery is used to explain things, ideas and actions using sounds
that appeal to our sense of hearing.
28. BLANK VERSE - is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic
pentameter.
29. BLACK HUMOR - is a literary device used in novels and plays to discuss taboo
subjects while adding an element of comedy.
30. CACOPHONY - is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic
pentameter.
31. CATHARSIS - the purification or purgation of the emotions (especially pity and
fear) primarily through art.
32. CHARACTERIZATION - is a literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to
highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
33. CONSONANCE - is a literary device in which a consonant sound is repeated in
words that are in close proximity.
34. COUPLET - is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry.
35. CADENCE - describes the fall in pitch of the intonation of the voice, and its
modulated inflection with the rise and fall of its sound.
36. CAESURA - is the space between two words contained within a metrical foot.
37. CLICHÉ - is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become
overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of
being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered
meaningful or novel.
38. CHIASMUS - is the reversing of the order of words in the second of two parallel
phrases or sentences.
39. CONFLICT - in literature refers to the different drives of the characters or forces
involved.
40. CLIMAX - in dramatic and nondramatic fiction, the point at which the highest
level of interest and emotional response is achieved.
II. GIVE 10 EXAMPLES OF EACH LITERARY TERMS.

1. Examples of Couplets
 Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- "An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope
 'Tis education forms the common mind,

Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
- "Epistles to Several Persons," Alexander Pope
 O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream

My great example, as it is my theme!
- "Cooper's Hill," John Denham
 Time and Death shall depart, and say in flying,

Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
- "One Happy Moment," John Dryden
 So, lovers dream a rich and long delight,

But get a winter-seeming summer's night.
- "Love's Alchemy," John Donne
 The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
- Hamlet
 This precious book of love, this unbound lover,

To beautify him only lacks a cover.
- Romeo and Juliet
 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
 For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
- "Sonnet 94"
 Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter

In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.
- "Sonnet 87"
2. Examples of Cliché
 Let's touch base.
 The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
 Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.
 I'm like a kid in a candy store.
 I lost track of time.
 Time heals all wounds.
 Play your cards right.
 Read between the lines.
 Beauty is only skin deep.
 And they all lived happily ever after
3. Examples of Assonance
 "Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe
 "Try to light the fire"
 "I lie down by the side fo my bride"/"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping
geese"/"Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to
ground" by Pink Floyd
 "It's hot and it's monotonous." by Sondheim
 "The crumbling thunder of seas" by Robert Louis Stevenson
 "If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced." - "Deadwood" by Al
Swearengen
 "It beats . . . as it sweeps . . . as it cleans!" - slogan for Hoover vacuum
cleaners
 "Those images that yet/Fresh images beget,/That dolphin-torn, that gong-
tormented sea." - "Byzantium" by W.B. Yeats
 "Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles
round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds" -
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
 "The spider skins lie on their sides, translucent and ragged, their legs drying
in knots." - "Holy the Firm" by Annie Dillard
4. Examples of Aphorism
 Actions speak louder than words.
 All for one and one for all.
 Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
 Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you
feed him for a lifetime.
 Give him an inch and he'll take a mile.
 Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself.
 He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
 He who hesitates is lost.
 If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
5. Examples of Auditory
 The clank of the keys.
 The clang of the plates.
 Crow of the rooster in the morning.
 The chirping of the birds.
 Whistling crescendo of the nightingale.
 The rustle of the papers.
 Pitter-patter of the rain.
 The tapping of nails on the table.
 Clap of hands.
 Buzz of the bees.
III. ARRANGE THE WORDS BASED ON THE LITERARY TERMS WE HAVE DISCUSSED.
1. Hacracetiraznoit – CHARACTERIZATION
2. Aadeg – ADAGE
3. Ganaonsisir – ANAGNORISIS
4. Uaidotyr – AUDITORY
5. Nocosecnan – CONSONANCE
6. Acocohpyn – CACOPHONY
7. Acrahtsis – CATHARSIS
8. Eacusar – CAESURA
9. Ihcsasum – CHIASMUS
10. Ilcehc – CLICHÉ

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DEFINE THE FOLLOWING BASED ON THE MEANING PROVIDED OR IN YOUR OWN

1. ALLUSION - an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a

II. GIVE 10 EXAMPLES OF EACH LITERARY TERMS.

 'Tis education forms the common mind,

 O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream

 Time and Death shall depart, and say in flying,

 So, lovers dream a rich and long delight,

 This precious book of love, this unbound lover,

 For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;

 Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter

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