CREATIVE WRITING TERMS

antagonists

• a very angry character in a fiction novel

• character who oppose or create conflict for the protagonist

• an angry person

• a character who goes along with everything the protagonists desires

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

climax

• the point in a story where the action is rising

• a genre of nonfiction

• the turning point or most intense moment in a story

• the peak of a mountain

creative nonfiction

• a genre that combines factual events with creative elements

• a mixture of poetry and nonfiction

• a genre of storytelling where the protagonist is conflicted

• the narrative perspective from the protagonists point of view

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.2

denouement

• the turning point or most intense moment in a story

• the final resolution or outcome of a story

• when the action in a story began to fall

• the rising action in a fictional story

diction

• imaginary or made up stories

• part of a sentence

• the choice and arrangement of words used in writing

• the introduction of background information in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

flash fiction

• a genre that combines factual events with creative elements

• very short stories with a complete plot

• a story told in a flash

• imaginary stories

fiction

• very short stories with a complete plot

• imaginary or made-up stories

• an uncertain point in a story

• the final resolution of a story

exposition

• the events that occur after the climax and lead to resolution

• the words in a story

• the final resolution or outcome of a story

• the introduction of background information in a story

in media res

• in the middle of things

• the beginning of a story

• the final resolution or outcome of a story

• the turning point in a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

genre

• a scene that jumps ahead in time

• the beginning of a story

• a category or type of literature

• the introduction of background information in a story