ENG 107 Creative Writing

David Sedaris

Brain Dogle

Yusef Kamenyakaa

Alice Walker

Warren J. Bowe

Barbara Hamby

Adam J. Ruben

Benjamin Percy

Joan Didion

Patrica Hampl

Marget Atwood

S.L. Wensenberg

Ursula K. Le Guin

Verna Mae Slone

Ed McClanahan

Wendell Berry

means there is image, something can be seen, heard, touched, smelled or tasted

means that a specific image also suggest an abstraction, generalization, judgment

The is a degree of focus and specificity

one thing s represented by another thing associated with it; something like (the crowns of England) figure of speech

a part stands for the whole something like (all hands on deck) all hands refer to men

figure of speech that plays on different meanings of the one word

on the edge of the action but our eyes and ears into the story (3rd person)

god like narrator can tell us whats going on in ALL of the character's mind and feelings and etc. (3rd person)

may go into the mind of 1 or 2 characters and observes the rest from the outside, (3rd person)

a narrator who knows no more than a normal person, just and observer, nosey

the point of highest tension in a story, decision made that decides the outcome of the conflict

the struggle between protagonist and antagonist

the end of a conflict

the central character deals with the problem

represents the obstacles the protagonist's desires and may be another human being or some other force

statement of the situation at the beginning of the action

a degree of direction and interpretation that is in fiction

as everything the reader needs to know to make coherent sense of the plot

the particular portion of the story the author chooses to present the 'present tense' of the narrative

treating time in fiction; covers a relatively long period of time in relatively short compass

treating time in fiction; deals at length with a relatively short period of time

3 lines Japanese poem with the syllable count of 7, 5, 7

repetition of an initial consonant (rhyme poems)

the repetition of a vowel sound between constants that may or may not match (rhyme poems)

the repletion of the consonant that concludes a word or syllable (rhyme poem)

a situation that happens in a play/drama before the curtains open (Hamlet father had already died)

when a character talks to him/herself not the same as a monologue

character says one line to another character then the next into thing air or the audience; usually the truth or what the character is thinking in their head (in films this is a voiceover)

helpful to or intended to help memory

the complex of meaning and ideas that come to be associated with a word

the study of meter and sound in poetry

the most direct or specific meaning of a word; how it is defined

a unit of measurement with one accented or stress syllable and one or two unstressed syllables

were the audience seems to be spying on what is going on, the fourth wall of the room has been removed

can be revealed by action or by slips of the tongue where the audience now knows the character isn't being truthful

sound and music

sound is stylized, not arising from the action but as an accompaniment or background to it

when the audience knows more than the character

acknowledging that the play is a play and the audience is the audience

Joe Dipietro

William Dunne

Jose Rivera

Anton Checkhon

Nick Laird

Sharon Olds

Erin Belieu

Grace Paley

Tony Hoagland

Steve Kowit

Sylvia Plath

Gerald Stern

Ron Carlson

Edith Pearlman

Ernest Hemingway

Amy Bloom

Micheal Chabon

Gayle Pemberton

Lanford Wilson

Li Young Lee

Maxine Kumun

Albert Goldbarth

Robert Hass

Scott Blackwood

David Foster Wallace

David Ives

Yusef Komunyakaa

Philip Appleman

John Freeman

Sherman Alexie

Angela Carter

Donald Barthelme

Molly Campbell

Kaylin Haught

Elizabeth Jennings

Carole Simmons Oles

Theodre Roethke

Richard Bausch

Alexsandar Hemon

Chuck O'Connor

Alicia Ostriker

Jorge Luis Borges

George Saunders

Jane Martin

Annie Dillard

Tobais Wolf

Jamaica Kincaid

Roger Bonair-Agard