Review Class for Creative Writing

This plot technique involves opening the story right in the middle of a significant event, if not, the climax itself.

• In medias res

• Deus ex machina

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

It is the sudden, unanticipated appearance of a character that solves the conflict in the story.

• Foreshadowing

• In medias res

• Deus ex machina

• Flashback

A technique a writer uses to hint or suggest what the outcome of an important conflict or situation in a narrative will be.

• In medias res

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Deus ex machina

It is a literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.

• Theme

• Mood

• Motif

• Tone

It is the emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader in a creative, persuasive or personal piece of writing.

• Confict

• Mood

• Moral Lesson

• feeling

This  genre  contains stories  which  are  at  least grounded on science-based fact or theory at the moment the story was written.

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• Romance

• Fantasy

• Science fiction 

• Crime Fiction

It refers to stories which are Biblical in nature.

• Fable

• Parable

• Gospel

It deals with stories about gods and goddesses.

• Epic

• Legend

• Myth

A long narrative prose which is divided into chapters

• Short Story

• Novel

• Series

It includes the time and place in which the story will be taking place

• History

• Setting

• Period