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Creative Non Fiction Flashcards

1
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tells a story using facts, but uses many of the techniques of fiction for its compelling
qualities and emotional vibrancy.

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Creative Non Fiction

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The writer composes his/her life story, from birth to the present, using the first person “I.”

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Autobiography

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The account of someone’s life written by someone else.

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Biography

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A composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view

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Essay

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The writer crafts stories about food and cuisine using literary devices.

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Food Writing

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a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group

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Blog

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a sequence of events that has a beginning, middle and end. It is a pattern of actions, events and situations
showing the development of the narrative.

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Plot

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describing a place or a situation

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Passage of Vivid Description

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using a quote to start a story

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Quotation

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enumerates the quotes

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List

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the character/s talk to start with no narration

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Dialogue

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a scene that reminisces

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Little Scene

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a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

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Anecdote

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starts with a question

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Question

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a catchy statement/quotation

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Striking Statement

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talking about a current situation

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Reference to Current Event

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17
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What is S.T.E.A.L.?

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S - peech
T - houghts
E - ffects
A - ctions
L - ooks

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18
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usually an imagined person who inhabits a story.

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Character

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is the representation of the traits, motives, and psychology of a character in a
narrative.

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Direct Description

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unusual or being peculiar

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Idiosyncratic

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21
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a long, tedious speech by one person during a conversation

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Monologue

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It involves a boy, aged between 3 and 6, becoming unconsciously sexually attached to his mother, and hostile towards his father

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Oedipus Complex

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23
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The implied agreement between a reader and a writer that the author of creative
nonfiction does not invent any facts in his or her storytelling.

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Nonfiction contract

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24
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The perspective from which a story is told

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Point of View

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25
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typically the first paragraph of the paper.

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Introduction

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26
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works to remind your reader of the main points of your paper and summarizes what you
want your reader to “take away” from your discussion.

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Conclusion

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27
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What does the character say?
How does he/she say it?
What is his/her tone?

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Speech

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28
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What does the character thinks?

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Thoughts

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29
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What is this character’s
effect on others? How does
he/she interacts with others?

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Effects

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30
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What does he/she do? What
can we learn from his/her actions?

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Actions

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31
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based off of a character’s decisions and mannerisms

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Action

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32
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based off of a separate character’s knowledge about a character

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Other Character’s Opinion

33
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based off of what one is saying

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Dialogue

34
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The personality of the author that the reader gleans from the narrative, as distinct from
the narrator’s or point-of-view character’s personality.

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Implied Author

35
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A mode of writing that purports to report the facts unemotionally.

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Objective Mode

36
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A mode of writing in which the narrator is assumed to have complete knowledge of
all events.

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Omniscient Mode

37
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A mode of writing in which the narration is presumed to be filtered through the
subjective opinions and experiences of a particular consciousness or character.

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Subjective Mode

38
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does not concern itself with who tells the story (the concern of point of view)
but rather with how the writer approaches it. That approach can be either objective or subjective.

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Angles of Approach

39
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has a strong implied author. The reader thinks, whoever this I is, he or she is
telling us the story directly.

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First Person POV

40
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The most unusual narrative perspective is the “you” form, in which a story is told
from the perspective of the reader.

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Second Person POV

41
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has less immediacy than first person and always has an impersonal voice. The
narrator seems to stand above it all, but there are limits to how much he or she is “allowed” to observe
as a nonparticipant in the action.

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Third Person POV

42
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In nonfiction, the settings have to be actual places, but you can use them to heighten
awareness of a character’s mood or to create an image for the reader of a specific time.

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Setting

43
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how it looks, smells, sounds

is the foundation, and it depends on intently observing details, especially those the casual observer would miss.

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Literal Description

44
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how it feels

moves beyond the literal and helps the reader know what a place feels like.

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Experiential Description

45
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a complete plan that explains how to do or develop something

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Blueprint

46
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A combination or collection of various things

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Collage

47
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A basic structure that underlies or supports a system, concept, or text.

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Frame

48
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An official record of events

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Log Book

49
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They are structural key words that signal the connection between ideas.

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Signal Words

50
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The way an author organizes information within a written text.

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Text Structure

51
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An instrument that marks the time.

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Time-marker

52
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refers to the arrangement of events in linear fashion as they occurred in time to inform
the readers about events or content.

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Chronological Structure

53
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This is a framework that creates a process hierarchy and determines how the process will be performed.

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Explanation of a Process

54
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It begins at some point in
time and moves back into the past. It interrupts a narrative or a scene, but were soon returned to
where you were.

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Flashback

55
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the writer tells two or more stories or narrative arcs that at first might not seem
compatible, but which are ingeniously tied together in the end linked by a common character, event, or theme.

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Parallel

56
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It involves pasting of small fragments, which all
together build up to the total picture of what happened.

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Collage or Mosaic

57
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narrative. It also makes
the narrative seem more personalsince the story is told through the point of view of the character himself/herself
revealing the main events, thoughts, emotions, and feelings on daily basis.

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Diary or Log Book

58
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a logical choice for interview stories which allows the reader to hear the
subject’s voice without the awkwardness of having to repeat “he said” or “she said” before every direct
quotation.

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Question and Answer

59
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an additional story is set within the main story. It is a good structure to use when you wish
to tell two stories at a time.

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Frame or Story within a Story

60
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existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a material object

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Abstract

61
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taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory

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Literal

62
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specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey
meaning

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Literary Technique

63
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a thing that represents or stands for something else

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Symbol

64
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It refers to the use of symbols
that suggests more than its literal meaning.

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Symbolism

65
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Indirect comparison of ideas using like or as

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Simile

66
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It compares two things that are not alike and finds something about them to make them similar

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Metaphor

67
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Using human attributes in describing
nonhuman or inanimate objects.

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Personification

68
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Use of exaggeration to emphasize an idea

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Hyperbole

69
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Addressing a person who is either dead or absent when the utterance is made

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Apostrophe

70
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Self-contradictory statement or
proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well-founded or true

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Paradox

71
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The “part” to represent the “whole”

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Synecdoche

72
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Substitution of a word/phrase for an idea to which it is closely related (say, an author for his/her works)

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Metonymy

73
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Contradicting words that are put together

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Oxymoron

74
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It is the use of the word that actually sounds like what it means

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Onomatopoeia

75
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a word plays which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect

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Pun

76
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The expression of opposing ideas in parallel grammatical structures or clauses.

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Antithesis

77
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ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

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Litotes

78
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Use of the same grammatical structure

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Parallelism

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