Marking Period Test

For Tuesday, please review the following terms covered this marking period in Creative Writing. These words can be found in your notes, on this blog (see previous posts), on line (if you didn't write them down in class), or in handouts I gave you during class:

• Fiction
• Exposition
• Inciting Incident
• Rising Action
• Crisis
• Climax/Turning Point
• Falling Action
• Resolution/Denouement
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Setting
• Theme
• in media res
• Poetry
• Lyric
• Ode
• Ballad
• Elegy
• Pattern/List poem
• Song
• Cinquain
• Symbol
• Repetition
• Verse
• Chorus
• Stanza
• Tercet
• Quatrain
• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Personification
• Alliteration 
• Assonance 
• Consonance 
• Onomatopoeia
• Figurative language
• Allusion
• Personification
• Cremamorphism
• Non Fiction
• Headlines 
• Masthead
• Article
• Body
• Hook
• Play
• Character
• Dialogue 
• Stage directions
• Genre
  

Writing Project

Today through Friday, please use the time in the library lab to do the following:

1. Set up a personal literary magazine.

• Select Microsoft WORD from the program/start menu.
• Choose a blank document (portrait or landscape)
• Create a title for your book. Your title should include your name and perhaps a graphic along with the title. 
• On page two, three, etc. type up any of your favorite poems, stories or writing you have completed so far in class. You may also write new short stories and poems (see prompts below to give you a start for a story). 
• Use your time in the lab to write as much as you can in the next few days. Be prepared to save and print your work at the end of Friday, Oct. 7.

2. Story starters:

• What she didn't know was that...
• "Get that thing away from me!" I yelled.
•  "That will show them," I thought as I hammered the last nail into place.\
  
  Choose one of the pictures below and use it to begin a story.
  
  
  
  
  
  

There will be a test on all literary terms on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

Fiction

Fiction Terms:

• Exposition
• Inciting Incident
• Rising Action
• Crisis
• Climax/Turning Point
• Falling Action
• Resolution/Denouement
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Setting
• Theme
• in media res

Song Lyrics & Rap/List Poems

Lyric Poetry: A short, emotional poem expressing a feeling
Song: A lyric poem set to music and meant to be sung

1 + 1 by Beyonce

One Wish by Ray J

Poetry Terms & Types

Ode: A poem praising its subject. Please read Pablo Neruda's ode: Ode to My Socks in which he praises his socks.

Elegy: a poem of mourning or grieving about something or someone lost. See samples given out in class.

Ballad: a narrative poem (a poem that tells a story), usually written in quatrains (4 line stanzas) and often sung.

Here's an example of a ballad (and elegy, come to think of it): Molly Malone sung by Sinead O'Connor

List or Pattern poem: a poem that repeats a particular phrase. For example: "I Believe" "I Am" or "I Remember" poems.

Lyric Poem: A short poem about an emotion, meant to be sung or read with music.

Song: a lyric poem set to music.

Repetition: a line or phrase that is repeated in a poem. Usually a key phrase or important idea is repeated.

Verse: A stanza in a poem.

Chorus: A repeated line or group of lines in a song. Another word for this is REFRAIN.

Tercet: a 3-lined stanza.

Quatrain: a 4-lined stanza often found in Ballads.

Poetry

What is poetry?

Mark Strand: "Eating Poetry"
Marianne Moore: "Poetry"

There a millions of answers to this question. For our purposes, it is the careful organization of words and phrases to express an idea or emotion concerning the human condition (what is means to be human).

Poetry is found in song, in novels, in advertisement, and children's television programming. It's everywhere!

Q: Does poetry have to rhyme? NO. Rhyme is only one poetic technique that writers use. You don't only use a hammer when a saw or wrench is a better choice. So it goes with rhyme. Use it when it works; don't use it when it doesn't.

What are the ELEMENTS of a POEM?

Content: poetry can contain feelings and ideas. Poems can tell stories about famous or common people, places, or things. But content comes from the writer. It is often what the writer THINKS or FEELS about a topic that makes it appropriate for poetry.

Images: Color, taste, texture, sound, scent, temperature are all the stuff of images. Poets use imagery by using metaphor, simile, personification, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and other figurative language in their poems. Try to include at least one of these techniques in every poem you write.

Let's watch a few poems:

Billy Collins: The Dead
Some Days
Alone
The Letter
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac
Shel Silverstein: Crocodile's Toothache
Shel Silverstein: The Giving Tree
Dr. Seuss: Fox in Sox

Journalism

Headlines: the attention grabbing title of an article

Masthead: the name of the newspaper/magazine (usually designed, but doesn't change)

Article: a specific story/narrative/non-fiction writing about a specific topic

Body: refers to the text of an article

Hook: Every article starts off with an attention grabbing sentence.