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IMAGERY
Remember that the purpose of CREATIVE WRITING is not to tell the responder what to see, feel or hear. But use words to allow responders
to create their own imagery.
There are five different types of imagery:
Imagine the oldest person you know…
• Create a mind map of images you associate with that person or stereotype
Oldest person your
know
Sights
Sounds
Tastes
Smells
Tactile
HOMEWORK
• Using your brainstorming ideas, prestend you have just walked into a room that the person you brainstormed about lives in or is in. describe what you see, hear, smell, feel, taste.
• “When I opened the door the first thing that hit me was…”
HOW?
• SimileComparison using like, as or
than.• MetaphorComparison that asks us to
picture one as if it is another
• PersonificationA type of metaphor in which
non-living (inanimate) things are given human qualities
• SymbolismThe use of a concrete object
to represent an abstract idea. Your words or phrases can have a double meaning.
• AlliterationThe repetition of the same
consonant sound.• AssonanceThe repetition of the same
vowel sound.• OnomatopoeiaWords that echo the sound
of the action.• RhymeWhen the endings of words
or lines sound the same.
RULE #2: Know your ending
• Know the end before you begin.
• like buying a train ticket, if you know where you’re going, you will take the right steps to get there.
THE STORY GRAPH
Action begins
Build-up
Tension scene
CLIMAX
RESOLUTION
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ORIENTATION
Plot unfolds - Quest revealed
FIND A STORYLINE Christopher Booker ‘The
Seven Basic Plots’: • Overcoming the Monster • Rags to Riches• The Quest• Voyage and Return• Comedy• Tragedy• Rebirth.(Find examples for each
from your own experience)
Another interpretation: • [wo]man vs. nature • [wo]man vs. man • [wo]man vs. the
environment • [wo]man vs.
machines/technology • [wo]man vs. the
supernatural • [wo]man vs. self • [wo]man vs.
god/religion We tend to tell variations of the same stories over and over because they have their basis in human psychology. These are the stories we identify with. The main character (the one the audience identifies with most and cares about most) is called the protagonist
CREATING CHARACTER
To SHOW rather than TELL a reader about their characters, writers:
• SHOW the objects around them• SHOW the way the character does
things (body language)• SHOWs what the character looks like• lets the reader speak or what they
are thinking
ACTIVITY
• Read the following text in the next slide and consider how elements of Eugenie’s character are being introduced.
• Annotate the passage highlighting which parts reveal: OBJECTS; ACTIONS; APPEARANCE; SPEECH
He liked Eugenie’s room. It was untidy. There was the piano open and her tea with the cup half full as usual, and the branches of withering red and yellow leaves stuck about the place in vases. She liked flowers. He was glad he had remembered to bring her his usual gift, and he held the flower wrapped in tissue paper in front of him. But why was the room so full of smoke?
A gust blew in. Both windows were open and the smoke was being blown in from the garden. He walked to the window and looked out. There was Eugenie tossing whole armfuls of dead leaves onto a bonfire. She jerked them as high as she could and the fire blazed up. A great fan of red flame flung out.
“That’s dangerous!” he called
Eugenie saw him and raised a hand in welcome, waving with excitement.
“Stay where you are!” she cried. “I’m coming”
Through a cloud of smoke she hurried towards him with both arms outstretched. She was extremely handsome; she has great dark eyes like a foreigner, and a nose with a ripple in it.
“I’m having a bonfire,” she said, her eyes glowing, her hair looping down, “that’s why I’m all blown about.”
She was untidy, like her room, and just like the fire, cracklingly alive. From “The Years” by Virginia Woolf
Writing TASK: Creating CharacterWill take less than 10 minutes!!!!
Step 1 (2 minutes)• Write about your character’s space: it can be their room;
home; backyard; balcony• Focus on three or four key objects and consider what they
reveal about the character• Eg. “Eugenie’s room. It was very untidy. There was a piano
open and her tea with the cup half full as usual, and branches of withering red and yellow leaves stuck about the place in vases. She liked flowers” notice that these are simple everyday, even random objects, but together create the impression that Eugenie is untidy.
• In your opening lines, do not let the reader see your character yet!
• If you have someone that can read it and give you feedback, do that! Explain to them what the objects signify
Step 2 (2 minutes)• Now show your reader your character
is doing from a distance. Your character doesn’t know that we can see them… being unaware of being watched, your character will be more natural.
• Make them do a particular action in a special way
Writing TASK: Creating CharacterWill take less than 10 minutes!!!!
Step 3 (2 minutes)• Now tell your reader what your character looks like.• Don’t focus only on appearance! You should either
(or do both):• Make them move as you write about them: Eugenie
“hurried towards him with her arms outstretched” (shows us she is friendly towards the man)
• Make something about them move: “…her hair looped down.” (what this convey?)
• Let the reader hear something your character says. Consider vocabulary and HOW they say it
Writing TASK: Creating CharacterWill take less than 10 minutes!!!!
Step 4• Finish your introduction to your
character with a statement about how you feel about her (evaluative): “She was as untidy, like her room, and just like the fire, crackling alive”
Writing TASK: Creating CharacterWill take less than 10 minutes!!!!