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31 Cards in this Set
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Where do you find creative non-fiction? |
- Magazines - Newspapers - Literary journals - Websites - Podcasts (e.g., Serial) - Books - Graphic novel |
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What do all forms of creative non-fiction have in common? (4) |
1) They are all factual 2) Often more personal 3) Uses scene (e.g., dialogue, setting, slowing down time) 4) Uses "literary" language (e.g., metaphores, similes) |
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What are the differences between autobiography & memoir? (2) |
1) Scope - a memoir can be of one particular episode in a person's life 2) Style - autobiography can be done in latent style whereas memoir pays more attention to language/literary devices |
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Why is St. Augustine important to the history of memoir? |
- First Western author to make the accomplishment an invisible, internal one and the journey to salvation a spiritual one - Introduced the idea of original sin |
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Why is Jean-Jacques Rousseau important to the history of memoir? |
Introduced the concept of the noble savage - people who needed to be enlightened |
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Why is Frederick Douglass important to the history of memoir? |
Slave narrative to serve as meaningful testimony to systemic crimes against an entire people |
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What can a memoir encompass? |
1) A pivotal life experience 2) A passion or interest experienced over a lifetime (e.g., a sport) 3) Writing about a self-imposed project (e.g., Julie & Julia) |
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What is the difference between scene & narrative? |
Scene - often use dialogue, real time Narrative - compressing time & glossing over several weeks/months/years |
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Describe Freytag's triangle. |
- How narratives are shaped generally. 1) Beginning (incentive moment, causes downplayed, effects stressed) 2) Complication, rising action, desis 3) Middle (climax, crisis, reversal) 4) Falling action, denouement 5) End (resolution, causes stressed, effects downplayed) |
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What can the sequence of a story be shaped to do? (3) |
1) Build tension & suspense 2) Weave back story 3) Develop a theme |
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What is theme? Examples? |
- Nebulous term that describes the part of the story that deals with human nature. Not a moral. - Examples: Marriage, challenges of a marriage, can one love the same person romantically for an entire lifetime? |
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What are symbols? |
A way of poetically reinforcing/restating themes |
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When do you use dialogue? |
- Evoke a character by the way that they talk - Creating scene |
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What are you allowed to fictionalize in CNF? |
Names |
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Describe the differences between connotation and denotation. What can affect them? |
1) Connotation - implied meaning, Denotation - literal meaning 2) Syntax, word choice |
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What are some techniques of comic writing? |
- Self-deprecation - Exaggeration - Playing up a character (e.g., Sedaris) |
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Why is Michel de Mataigne important to the history of personal essay? |
- His essays were an attempt to find out what he thought about something, rather than having a thesis with multiple examples of evidence - Wrote about whatever crossed his mind
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Why is Virgina Woolf important to the history of personal essay? |
- Want to use aspects of fiction in personal essay - "Personality is the essayist's most dangerous & delicate tool" |
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Why is George Orwell important to the history of personal essay? |
- Wrote about being an officer (colonialist) - Wrote literary journalism (about being a poor person) |
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How is a personal essay different from memoir? |
Memoir - emphasize yourself as character, stretch out scene Personal essay - start with scene, but go into other topics related to it |
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Describe the differences between CNF & Journalism. |
Journalism - Event or issue-driven - Neutral tone - Less literary language - Published in magazines & newspapers - Features reportage & academic references CNF - Every day or personal topics - Subjective tone - Literary language - Literary/personal references - Published in literary journals |
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Describe the differences between memoir & personal essay. |
Memoir - Told mostly in scene - Theme is implicit - Character is developed Personal Essay - Told mostly in exposition - Theme explicit - Personal leads to theme - Argument developed - Features reportage In between - Reflective memoir: something is said more explicitly - Narrative personal essay: person changes by the end |
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Describe the narrative essay. |
- Most resembles the memoir - Ramps up in excitement to climax & then quickly wraps up |
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Describe the reflective essay. |
- Circling around a point or idea - Looking at an idea from multiple angles - No thesis that distills everything into one sentence |
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Describe the segmented essay (Tim Bascom). |
- Essay is broken up a lot by line breaks, numbers, etc. - Elements are connected by some sort of idea or theme - AKA collage essay |
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Describe the braided essay. |
- Kind of like segmented essay as it connects elements that are seemingly disconnected (connect over the time of the piece) - 2 different narrative lines that interweave - Kind of related to lyric essay (one form of it) |
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What should you avoid when writing sentences & what are some exceptions to using them? (5) |
1) Figures or speeches or cliches - dialogue 2) Extraneous words 3) Repetitive sentence structure - emphasis 4) Words that defy logic (e.g., literally) - exaggeration/comic, dialogue 5) The passive voice - circumstances that aren't anybody's fault |
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What is rogeting? |
an overuse of the thesaurus |
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What are some rhetorical techniques? |
1) Irony 2) Metaphor & simile 3) Analogy 4) Understatement |
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Describe the lyric essay. |
- These “poetic essays” or “essayistic poems” given primacy to artfulness over the conveying of information. They forsake narrative line, discursive logic, and the art of persuasion in favor of idiosyncratic meditation. - Go from one topic to another to another & then repeated. May not understand the connection until the end |
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Describe the hermit crab essay. |
- Essay in the skin of another literary form (e.g., a recipe, a quiz, an "I Saw You" ad) |
