CREATIVE NONFICTION
Fact – the writing must be based o fact , rather
than fiction. It cannot be made up.
Extensive Research – piece of writing is based on
primary research, such as an interview or personal
experience.
Reportage/reporting – writer must be able to
document events or personal experiences.
Personal experience and personal opinion –
writer includes personal experience, feelings,
thoughts, and opinions.
Explanation/Exposition – writer is required to
explain the personal experience or topic to the
reader.
Essay Format – creative nonfiction is often written
in essay form.
Character/s – characters are real people. In order
to make the work relatable or empathetic.
Detail – provides pieces of information.
Dialogue – literary and theatrical form consisting
of a written or spoken conservational exchange
between two or more people.
Diction – is the writer’s choice of word.
Figurative Language – type of language that varies
from the norms of literal language.
Flashback – a literary device in which an earlier or
past event is inserted into present or the normal
chronological order of a narrative.
Flash forward – is a literary device in which the
plot goes ahead of time.
Foreshadowing – is a literary device in which a
author hints certain plot developments that
perhaps will come to be later in the story.
Imagery – refers to the “pictures” which we
perceive with our mind’s eyes, ears, nose tongue,
skin, and through which we experience the
”duplicate world” created by poetic language.
Motif – is any element, subject, idea or concept
that is constantly present trough the entire body
of literature.
Narrative – nonfiction writing usually follows a
time line for a narrative that is either linear or non
linear, depending on how the author tells the
story.
Order
– Arrangement of events in work literature.
1. Importance – use order of importance to rank
details from least to most, or from most to least.
2. Chronological – use chronological order (time
order) to arrange details in a story or process in
the order in which they happened.
3. Problem – Solution – use problem solution order
to explain a problem, outline a solution, or argue
for or against a solution.
4. Comparison Contrast – use comparison contrast
organization to show similarities and differences
between two things.
5. Classification – use classification to break a
subject into subgroups or categories.
LITERARY GENRE
Creative nonfiction – writer writes about real
people and events.
Journal – Personal Reflection
Personal Essay – personal experience that
could be narrative expository, persuasive or
descriptive.
Memoir – Personal Meaning and a universal
truth.
Autobiography – writer composes his or her
life story, from birth up to present using the
word “I”.
Biography – writer writes about someone else
life.
Literary Journalism – articles such as
newspaper and magazine.
Trade Articles – about food, travel, hobbies,
business and etc.
Nonfiction Novel – true story writer in the
literary form of a novel.
New Journalism – new way of reporting facts
vivid.
PLOT AND PLOT STRUCTURE
