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Creative writing- Fiction Flashcards

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What is an exposition?

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Providing essential background info about main characters, themes, ideas and worlds of the story

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What is narrative voice?

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Perspective from which a story is told
1st- personal experience (I)
2nd- no thought process (you)
3rd- multiple views (they)

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What is the tenor of a sentence?

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What is described

not the same as in spoken language

could often be a noun e.g. “My mum”

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What is the vehicle of a sentence?

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What the tenor is desrcibed as

e.g. ‘My mum is a dragon’- dragon is the vehicle

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What is the ground of a sentence?

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Transferrable attributes

has to be relevant to context of sentence

e.g. ‘My mum is a dragon’- dragon suggests angry, monsterous, big teeth, breathe fire

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What should be considered when writing up a commentary?

4 main focuses

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GENRE- What genre is the text, what gives this away?
TOPIC- field of writing, what helps suggest this
AUDIENCE- who is writing aimed at, what suggests this (primary, secondary, tertiary)
PURPOSE- what is writing intended to do (inform, advise, entertain etc)

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What are some possible conventions of the fantasy genre?

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Magic
High/ low fantasy
Create escapism
Conflicts between forces
Magical/ mythical creatures

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What are stylistics?

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A branch of linguistics that systematically analyses the writer’s choices in order to study meaning

look at context and relate this to why writer has made this choice

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What are the conventions of the historical fiction genre?

There are 7

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CHARACTER- are they believable for this period? why?
LANGUAGE- why is this kind language used?
SETTING- believable? intended effect?
THEME- what? contributing factors?
PLOT- believable? why?
CONFLICT- what? why is it important?
WORLD BUILDING- easy to imagine? why?

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What is the tone of the text?

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Refers to author’s attitude towards a certain topic

can also be used in a commentary

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What is anaphoric referencing?

opposite to cataphoric referencing

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Referring to/ replacing a word that will be used later on in the text

e.g. Mr O’Connor was a teacher. He was from Blackpool- ‘he’ is referencing Mr O’Connor

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What is a cataphoric referencing?

opposite to anaphoric referencing

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Referring to/ replacing a word that will be used later on in the text

e.g. He was trapped. James had no way out- person isn’t identified first, they are only referred to

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What is exophoric referencing?

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Referring to someone/ something outside of a conversation or text

only works when there is ‘shared knowledge’

e.g. ‘These events always brought out the worst in my Mary. These events brought out the worst in me.’- reader already knows what events are prior to reading this sentence (shared knowledge)

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What is direct speech?

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Sentence in which the exact words spoken are reproduced in speech marks

e.g. “Come here!”

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What is indirect speech?

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Sentence where the main points of what someone has said are reported

e.g. “Come here!”, she bellowed. (this uses a speech tag)
e.g. She spoke to him very rudely.

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What are some possible conventions of the sci-fi genre?

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Scenarios that challenge reality
Aliens (villians)
Alternate universes
Superpowers/ special FX
Conflict
Technology
Space
Futuristic ideas

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What is the passive voice?

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Object is placed first in the sentence structure.

can make sense without the subject (by Rebecca)

e.g. ‘The ball was kicked by Rebecca.’

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What is the active voice?

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The subject is placed before the object in a sentence.

does not make sense without the subject

e.g. ‘Rebecca kicked the ball.’

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What are some possible conventions on the romance genre?

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Conflict, emotion
Meetings
Female- centric
Male lead
‘Happily Ever After’
Weather and pathetic fallacy
Romantic gestures
Stereotypical romance

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What is a cliche?

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Something that is overused so much that it loses it’s original meaning

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What does it mean to ‘subvert’ the genre?

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Go against typical stereotypes and cliches, avoids typicalities of the genre

e.g. subverting romance- have the characters not live ;happily ever after’

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What is the mood of a text?

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An attitude or feeling expressed by the writer

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What is a centripetal force?

relates to the positioning of the mood, where it should be introduced

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The mood must be set out in the opening

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What is a euphemism?

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A mild/ indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh.

‘it’s edgy, it’s french’- considered fashionable- speaker is trying not to sound harsh with their point

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What is a disphemism?

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A derogatory/ unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one

e.g. ‘it’s unsalvagable’- said as though it will never be the same again (overdramatic), being negative and doubtful, insulting

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What is an epistolary?

e.g. Frankenstein, Diary of Wimpy Kid etc

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A story told through a series of diary entries and letter

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What is a frame narrative?

e.g. Titanic- pans from wreckage to Rose’s perspective/ experiences

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A story within a story, within sometimes yet another story

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What are some conventions of the horror genre?

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-death
-victims
-tension and suspense
-questions human nature
-dramatic irony/ restricted info
-monologues ponticating the nature of evil

29
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What is fallibility?

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Capable of making mistakes

e.g. Politicians are no different to other humans; they are fallible.

30
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What do the suffix ‘-centric’ mean?

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Being in the middle of something/ focused around something

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What does androcentric mean?

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Men focused/ men only

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What does allocentric mean?

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Others focused/ others at the centre

33
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What does egocentric mean?

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Full of yourself/ egotisticle/ yourself at the centre

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What does ethnocentric mean?

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Culture based (only focused on one culture)

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What does anthropocentric mean?

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Humans at the centre

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What does theocentric mean?

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Religion at the centre

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What is a dramatic monologue?

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A speech given by an individual character to express their inner thoughts and feeling.

38
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What 3 aspects does dramatic discourse often include?

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-Character (soul conscience of character- feelings, emotions etc)
-Revelation (insight/ attitude that creates drama implied)
-Climax (monolgue comes towardsa a climatic ending)

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What are the conventions of dramatic monologues?

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-stage directions
-emotions
-first person narrative
-uninterrupted flow

40
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What is a concept?

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An abstract idea that can underpin the way we think and behave.

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