Exam considerations

Question 1

What are some examples of themes for Creative Writing in previous Exams

Answer 1

• Characters with distinctive, convincing voices.
• Misleading direction of story
• Dialoge doesn’t copy real life, it takes on air of real-life conversation.

Question 2

What are the items in Bob’s list of advice?

Answer 2

• Show rather than tell.
• Suggest forward movement.
• Distinguish one voice from another and imply the attitude of the speaker.
• Consistency in tone.
• Create indirect responses which intrigue the reader and move story on.
• Use pauses, repetition, hesitation and overlapping dialog.
• Use subtext, what the conversation beneeth the words is actually communicating - Challange your audience by not spelling everything out.

Question 3

Terms to use in essay to look clever.

Answer 3

Devices, Verisimilitude, ambiguity, polyvalance of meaning

Question 4

Who do characters communicate information to? What else may they have to communicate?

Answer 4

The other characters AND the audience. They may also have to communicate information about the story in which they exist. And mood

Question 5

Ways to make dialogue oblique?

Answer 5

Not exactly answer the question or comment in dialogue. Divert away from question entirerly. An intruiging answer to a question should be indirect, evasive or (superficially) not apperently an answer at all.

Question 6

What important steps do you need to show in the dialogue?

Answer 6

• Drafting
• Show don’t tell
• Repetition (The problem…the problem is)
• Suggest forward movement
• Distinguish one voice from another
• Sustain consistency in tone
• Create indirect responses which intrigue the reader adn move the story on
• Use pauses, repetition, hesitation and overlapping dialogue.
• Use subtext - what the conversation beneth the words is actually communicating - challenge the audience by not spelling everything out.