Creative Writing 101 Ep.1 - Imagery, Diction, and Figures of Speech
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Sir Angie Javier introduces 'Creative Writing 101' by comparing technical and creative writing. Technical writing is straightforward, while creative writing is imaginative and expressive, often using literary devices such as imagery, diction, and figures of speech. Imagery helps readers visualize through sensory details, diction reflects the writer’s style, and figures of speech add depth to language. Examples of simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and other literary techniques are discussed to enhance understanding. This session provides an insightful foundation for appreciating and practicing creative writing.
Takeaways
- ✍️ Creative writing goes beyond technical conventions and emphasizes imagination and literary devices.
- 🔧 Technical writing is straightforward and non-fictional, focused on instruction, explanation, and direction.
- 🎨 Creative writing uses literary devices such as imagery, diction, and figures of speech to express feelings and ideas.
- 👁️ Imagery appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste) and helps create a vivid experience for readers.
- 📚 Diction reflects the writer's style and can define whether a text is formal or informal.
- 🖋️ Figures of speech deviate from literal meaning to add color and aesthetic appeal to language.
- 🔄 Simile and metaphor are comparisons used to enhance creative writing, with simile using 'like' or 'as' and metaphor making direct comparisons.
- 📈 Hyperbole is an exaggeration for emphasis, while personification gives human qualities to non-human objects.
- 🌀 Oxymoron places two contradictory words together to create a new meaning, while paradox is a self-contradicting but logical statement.
- 💡 Devices such as synecdoche (using a part to represent a whole) and metonymy (replacing one thing with something closely related) are commonly used in creative writing.
Q & A
What is the key difference between technical writing and creative writing?
-The key difference is that technical writing is straightforward, focusing on instruction and factual content without requiring imaginative expression. Creative writing, on the other hand, goes beyond conventions and is guided by the writer's need to express feelings and ideas using literary devices.
What are some common examples of creative writing?
-Common examples of creative writing include poetry, drama, short stories, epics, and myths. These forms are characterized by their creative and imaginative nature, free from the restrictive demands of technical writing.
How does imagery function in creative writing?
-Imagery in creative writing is descriptive language that appeals to the five senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste). It helps readers create a more vivid and sensory experience of the world the author is trying to convey.
Can you provide an example of how imagery appeals to different senses in a poem?
-In the sample poem, 'The scent of her wonderful being tickles my peace ever seeing her face is divine,' the word 'scent' appeals to the sense of smell, while 'tickles' appeals to touch, and 'her face is divine white flowers' appeals to sight.
What is diction, and how does it impact creative writing?
-Diction is the writer's choice of words, reflecting their style of expression. It significantly affects the tone of the writing and how readers imagine characters and scenes. Diction also establishes whether a text is formal or informal.
What is a simile, and how does it differ from a metaphor?
-A simile is an indirect comparison between two things using 'as' or 'like,' such as 'Carlotta is as wonderful as fresh-bloomed roses.' A metaphor, on the other hand, is a direct comparison without 'as' or 'like,' such as 'Carlotta is a fresh-bloomed rose.'
What is hyperbole, and can you give an example?
-Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement that goes beyond reality. An example is, 'Linda was so mad that she brought hell on earth,' which exaggerates her anger to an impossible level.
How does personification add depth to creative writing?
-Personification gives human attributes to non-human things. For example, in 'the sky cries,' the sky is given the human ability to cry, adding emotional depth to the description.
What is the difference between synecdoche and metonymy?
-Synecdoche uses a part of something to represent the whole, such as using 'wheels' to represent a car. Metonymy replaces the name of something with something closely related, such as 'the crown' representing a king or queen.
What is alliteration, and how does it differ from assonance?
-Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a sentence, like 'Betty Butter bought some butter.' Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, such as 'An ant ate an apple.' Both create rhythmic effects in writing.
Outlines
📘 Introduction to Creative Writing 101
This paragraph introduces Sir Angie Javier as the speaker and welcomes viewers to Creative Writing 101. It sets the stage by briefly contrasting technical writing with creative writing, emphasizing that creative writing allows for more expressive and imaginative approaches, using literary devices like imagery and figurative language, while technical writing is more factual and straightforward.
✍️ Understanding Imagery in Creative Writing
Imagery is highlighted as a descriptive tool that helps readers visualize and experience literary works through their five senses: touch, hearing, taste, smell, and sight. The paragraph uses a poem as an example to illustrate how various lines appeal to different senses, showing how creative writing stimulates sensory experiences and creates vivid mental images for the reader.
📝 The Power of Diction
Diction, or the writer's choice of words, is introduced as a literary device that shapes the tone and style of a text. This section uses the example of a story involving a princess and a wicked queen to show how diction can influence a reader's perception of characters and events, contrasting the 'beautiful' princess with the 'vile and vicious' queen. It highlights how diction can make a text more formal or informal and impactful.
💡 Exploring Figures of Speech
Figures of speech, which deviate from literal meanings to enhance language, are discussed. Various examples are given, including simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, and apostrophe. Each figure of speech is explained with examples that showcase how they enrich creative writing by adding depth and meaning. Simile and metaphor are used for comparisons, while hyperbole exaggerates for emphasis. Personification gives human qualities to non-human entities.
🎭 More Figures of Speech: Oxymoron, Paradox, and More
The paragraph continues exploring figures of speech, focusing on oxymoron, paradox, synecdoche, and metonymy. Oxymoron juxtaposes contradictory words to create new meanings, like 'pretty ugly,' while paradox involves contradictory statements that make sense, such as 'to live is to die.' Synecdoche uses a part to represent the whole, and metonymy replaces the name of something with something closely related, like 'the crown' for 'king.'
🔄 Chiasmus, Alliteration, Assonance, and Onomatopoeia
Chiasmus, the reversal of sentence structure for artistic effect, is explained, followed by a discussion of alliteration (repetition of consonant sounds), assonance (repetition of vowel sounds), and onomatopoeia (words that imitate sounds). Examples like 'never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you' illustrate chiasmus, while alliteration and assonance use repeated sounds to create rhythm and mood. Onomatopoeia adds auditory realism with words like 'tick tock' or 'screech.'
🔔 Rhyme and Epistrophe in Creative Writing
This paragraph covers rhyme and epistrophe, two additional literary devices. Rhyme involves the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of lines, often in poetry or songs, as seen in 'Baa Baa Black Sheep.' Epistrophe, on the other hand, involves the repetition of the same word at the end of successive sentences for emphasis, as in 'where now, who now, when now.' These tools contribute to the structure and musicality of creative writing.
🧾 Conclusion and Summary of Creative Writing Concepts
The video wraps up by summarizing the differences between technical and creative writing, emphasizing that while technical writing is direct and fact-based, creative writing focuses on imaginative expression and emotional resonance. The key literary devices covered—imagery, diction, and figures of speech—are recapped, highlighting their roles in making creative writing vivid, expressive, and compelling. Sir Angie Javier closes by thanking viewers and inviting them to future sessions.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Creative Writing
💡Technical Writing
💡Imagery
💡Diction
💡Figures of Speech
💡Simile
💡Metaphor
💡Hyperbole
💡Personification
💡Oxymoron
Highlights
Introduction to Creative Writing 101 by Sir Angie Javier.
Differentiation between technical writing and creative writing.
Technical writing involves straightforward, instructional, and factual content.
Creative writing goes beyond the conventions of technical literature, often using imaginative expression.
Creative writing focuses on expressing feelings and ideas, not bound by factual or logical progression.
Imagery, a key literary device, uses descriptive language to appeal to the five senses.
Example of imagery: 'The scent of her wonderful being' appeals to the sense of smell, and possibly sight and touch.
Explanation of diction as the writer's choice of words, affecting tone and character perception.
Diction can make a text formal or informal, affecting the reader's imagination.
Figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, deviate from literal meanings to create aesthetic impact.
Simile involves indirect comparison using 'like' or 'as,' while a metaphor is a direct comparison.
Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement, making things beyond reality.
Personification gives human attributes to non-human objects, like 'the sky cries.'
Explanation of oxymoron, where two contradictory terms, like 'pretty ugly,' are placed together to form new meaning.
Paradox involves self-contradictory statements that still make sense, like 'to live is to die.'
Transcripts
hi guys this is sir angie javier and
welcome to creative writing
101
by the very name of our subject creative
writing i know many of you are already
having ideas about what
this subject could be all about but
before we further discuss what creative
writing is
let us first differentiate technical
writing and
create writing you are a grade 11
student and you already finished your
first semester
you are surely introduced to a variety
of academic texts
through your subject english for
academic and professional purposes
these texts are non-fictional writings
thus they contain
information and arguments which are
presented directly
generally these non-fiction texts fall
under
technical writing technical writing is a
style of writing which tackles subjects
that require
instruction explanation and direction
therefore it is delivered
straightforward and does not require
worthiness or imaginative expression on
the other hand creative writing is a
style of writing that goes beyond
the conventions of technical literature
also called as imaginative writing this
style can be
any writing be it fiction poetry or even
non-fiction
these writings just simply use literary
devices like imagery
figures of speech diction and
more what we have to remember most about
creative writing
is that it is guided more by the need of
the writer to express
feelings and ideas rather than be guided
with the restrictive demands of factual
and logical progression expository
writing
that's why if you would look closely to
the most common examples of creative
writing like poetry
drama short story epics myths
and more you would see that these
writings are actually
free creative imaginative
and therefore it is not bound by the
restrictive demands
of technical writing
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imagery is basically descriptive
language it functions
as a way for the readers to better
imagine
the literature attend as it appeals to
the five senses
the sense of touch hearing taste smell
and sight it helps develop a sensory
experience or a more fully realized
understanding
of the imaginary world the author is
trying to create
now let's look at this sample poem and
see what imagery is all about
let us read the following lines of this
stanza
the scent of her wonderful being jiggles
my piece every seeing
her face is divine white flowers
astounding reverberating powers
sweetness flavors her lips all majesty
i'm hers for gibbs
now let's see in which senses does
each line appeal to
the first one has scent of her wonderful
being
the word sent there obviously appeals
to our sense of smell but creatively
the first lines scent of her of her
wonderful being
not just appeals to our sense of smell
but might
also appeal to our sense of sight or
even sense of touch
because we are talking about the
wonderful being of the woman
see on the second line there is
tickle's my piece ever seeing tickle
appeals to the sense of touch
the sensation the feeling of being
tickled
when you see that woman on the third
line
it says her face is divine white flowers
so the face is being compared to
heavenly
white flowers so obviously that is
for the sense of sight for the fourth
one we have
astounding reverberating powers the word
reverberating
or in filipino domadogun so it obviously
appeals to our sense of hearing
and then finally for the fifth line
there is sweetness
flavors her lips
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um although we can take this as
literally
as appealing to sense of taste
we can also say that this also appeals
to the sense of
sight because maybe the woman
smiles beautifully smells
sweetly thus the writer said so
so you see imagery is the use of
words that appeal to the senses making
the readers
better imagine what the writer is trying
to say
is he right again imagery is basically
descriptive language which helps the
reader to better imagine
the world the writer is trying to create
okay at this point let's go to the
second literary device
which is usually used in creative
writing and that is
textual diction
is the writer's choice of words it
reflects the writer's
style of expression it greatly affects
the tone of the piece of writing
at the same time it affects how the
readers imagine
the characters of a story but one
primary thing
diction does is it establishes whether a
text is
formal or informal let's look at these
sample texts and let's see how the
choice of words with the writer
affected how we imagined the characters
of the story
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once upon a time there lived a beautiful
princess
she was loved by all men and women alike
her skin was as white as snow her lips
were as red as the rose and her smile
was as bright as the sun
the crowd would turn heads as she passed
among them
her beauty was pleasing to all except
for one
the wicked queen she was the stepmother
of the princess
a vile and vicious queen she always
wanted to be the most beautiful
being to walk the earth that's why
she never liked princess with her
heartless huntsmen
she planned to end the princess let's
look at some words
chosen by the author to describe the two
characters of the story
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to describe the princess the author
chose the words beautiful
loved by all her skin as white as snow
her lips were as straight as the rose
and her smile was as bright as the sun
even adding that the crown would turn
heads
as she passed among them with these
descriptions with these words
selected by the author we can clearly
imagine that the princess
is a pleasing princess it's a beautiful
princess
a beautiful pleasing princess on the
other hand
to describe the queen the stepmother of
the princess
the author chose the words wicked
violent vicious always wanted to be the
most beautiful being to walk the earth
and never like the princess
plus with heartless huntsmen
all these words
chosen by the author to describe the
queen or the stepmother
princess make us think
that this stepmother is actually a bad
one
see how important diction is it helps us
make our writings more effective because
we are able to make our readers better
imagine
the characters the story and everything
that we want to deliver through our
pieces
finally let's talk about figures of
speech figures of speech are expressions
which
deviate from the literal meaning these
are used to add color to language
by making expressions more aesthetically
effective basically from the word
figurative
these are expressions which you have to
figure out
their meaning first for you to fully
understand what they
mean there are numerous figures of
speech
in fact if you would search the internet
you would see that there are actually
hundreds of figures of speech
being used in the world but for this
video we'll be discussing
16 of the most commonly used figures of
speech
and let's have them one by one speech
one by one
beginning with the most commonly used
that is
simile simile is indirect comparison
it uses the words as
and like to compare two things
let's look at the example sentences here
carlotta is as wonderful as the fresh
bloomed roses in the garden
here we compared carlotta with the fresh
plumed roses
using the adjective wonderful
constructed
with the 2s
now if you would use like
we don't need to put any adjective
anymore and we can just take our lota
is like the fresh plumed roses in the
garden
again the difference of using lag and s
is that you need to put
an adjective in between the two ass the
metaphor is like a brother to the simile
only this time it is a direct comparison
here we don't use
like or ass anymore and we just go
straightly
compare the two things in the sentence
like
carlotta is a fresh plumed rose in the
garden
directly comparing carlotta with the
fresh bloom rose
third we have hyperbole hyperbole is
known to be the exaggeration making
things beyond reality
we have here the sentence linda was very
mad that she
brought hell on earth
the exaggeration here is that she
brought hell on earth
no one is capable of bringing hell on
earth that's why
when we said linda was very mad that she
brought hell on earth
it's an example of a hyperbole
fourth we have personification from the
word personify
personification is animation making
non-human
human things do human activities
or have human attributes let's look at
the example here
the sky cries as karen whips in the
meadows
so here the non-human thing is the sky
and we give it the human attribute of
crying
we give it the ability to cry so sky
cries here
is an example of personification
then there is apostrophe
apostrophe is a direct address
it's calling someone or something in
your
line or sentence usually when you use
apostrophe
you use it to address non-human things
or something that is not present or
not living let's do an example here
oh dear faith why did you bring me to
this much pain
here
the one being addressed by the sentence
is
faith saying oh dear fate
now let's go to the next figure of
speech that is
oxymoron this is one of my most favorite
figures of speech because
it is placing side by side two
contradicting
words again there are two words
opposite to one another and they are
placed together
to create new meaning let's look at the
example here the dress the first lady is
wearing
is pretty ugly so if you look closely at
this
the words used in the sentence you would
see two words
which are placed side by side but are
opposite
to one another and those are pretty
and ugly pretty ugly are opposite words
but when you combine them and you place
them side by side
they create a new meaning
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so pretty ugly may mean not
pretty not that beautiful
so it's an example of an oxymoron and
then
for the second sentence we have mr
villarreal son was found
missing after the party so the two words
which are not
the two words here which are opposite to
one another are
found and missing because when you say
found
it is something that you see but missing
means
something that you don't see found
missing together
means realized missing
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next one we have paradox
paradoxes like oxymoron but the
difference here it's that
paradox is a self-contradicting
statement that makes sense
meaning we're not just combining two
opposite words here rather we combine
two opposing statements
look at the example here we must fall in
order to
rise so we have here must fall in order
to rise so two contradicting statements
or phrases
and then we also have here to live is to
die
okay so it's like oxymoron but the
difference here is that
it's a self-contradicting statement it's
a statement that contradicts
itself unlike in the oxymoron there are
just two words
placed together which are opposite in
meaning
okay let's go to the next one that is
synecdoche synecdoche is using a part of
something to represent
the whole it might sound confusing but
let's talk
the example here it says here lloyd road
on the boss
since his wheels is on the repair okay
so our synecdoche here refers to
wheels the wheels here
represent the whole car so it means
lloyd wrote on a bus since his car is
under
repair so the wheels there represent the
whole
car okay another example monica was in
the forest when she met
a grey beard our synecdoche here is
grey beard and who
usually has a gray beard an old man
so the grey beard there represents an
old man
because usually an old man has a grey
beard okay again synecdoche is using a
part of something to represent the whole
for example you could use sale to
represent the whole book boat
or maybe you could use a hand
to represent a person so you can say
i need a hand
so you need a person another person to
help you
okay next we have
metonymy metonymy sometimes being
confused with synecdoche but the
difference here is this
metonymy is replacing the name of a
thing with the name of something else
which is closely associated with it if
in synecdoche we use a part of something
to represent it
here in metonymy we replace that thing
with another thing that is closely
related to it
look at this the crown order the
investigation of the princess's death
so here we have the crown as our
metonymy the crown here represents who
probably the king or the queen so
since the king or the queen is closely
associated with wearing a crown
we did not say
queen or king anymore rather we replaced
it with
crown so that's metonymy in synecdoche
it's a part
the part of the queen or the part of the
king that will be used but in metonymy
we are using something that is closely
related to that
okay look at this other example here
last year thousands of boots marched to
mindanao to resolve conflicts
so our metonymy here is boots
and boots here represent
soldiers so last year thousands of
soldiers
marched to mindanao to resolve conflicts
because
soldiers or army are usually
the army is usually related to
wearing boots whenever they are in
battle
okay so again metonymy is replacing
something
with something else that is closely
associated with it
okay next one
let's go to chiasmus chiasmus is putting
together
two or more clauses that are balanced
against
each other by the reversal of their
structures in order to produce an
artistic effect
this one is quite confusing if you're
going to read the definition but it's
actually very easy to understand
chaos most simply means you put two
sentences together
but you balance them against each other
by reversing the order of the other
sentence
never let a fool kiss you or a kiss
fool you so you see here we have two
sentences here
combined okay
we have here never let a full kiss you
or a kiss fool you so you see
we just reverse the order of the first
sentence in the other one
in filipino we have this example of
chiasmus a famous example of yasmos here
i believe this is delivered in one
famous movie in the philippines
and that line goes mahal mubaraki
so it's an example of chiasmus because
uh it's composed of two sentences
balance against balance against each
other by
reversing the order reversing the
structure
okay easy to understand right let's go
to the next one
and that is alliteration alliteration is
the repetition
repeating of a consonant sound as an
initial
or dominant sound in several words in a
line meaning
you repeat a consonant sound
i usually has a first letter of every
word in a line
look at this betty butter bought some
butter
so obviously we are repeating the
consonant
sound in here so we have
d b b d as the initial letter of most of
the words in this line
easy to understand of course if we have
the consonant we also have one for the
vowel sound and that is
assonance assonance is the repetition of
a vowel sound in several words in a line
similar to alliteration
look at this example sentence here an
ant ate an apple
so we repeat here the vowel
a onomatopoeia onomatopoeia
are words that imitate sounds look at
the example sentences here
my heart seemed to beat with the tick
tock of
the clock obviously our animated figure
here is
tick tock because it imitates the sound
of the clock
tick tock and then we have the second
sentence here the silence was broken by
the screeching of the door
so our onomatopoeia here is screeching
imitating the sound of a door that is
closely
that is slowly being closed or slowly
being opened
the screeching
then we have the rime
i believe the rhyme is very common to
you
the rhyme simply means repeating similar
sounding words usually occurring at the
end of the lines in poems or songs
example baba black ship have you any
wool
yes sir yes sir three bags full so we
have here wool and full
as the rhyming words with the similar
sounding words
and then continuing one for the master
one for the dame
and one for the little boy who lives
down the lane
and we have dame and lane there as to
another
set of rhyming words
next we have epistophe epistrophe is
putting the same word at the end of each
sentence so you have a couple of
sentences together
but at the end of each sentence is the
same
word it's the same word look at this
where now
who now when now so we have here now
as the ending word of each statement
so that's our lesson for our first
session but before we end let us first
have a generalization of what we have
talked about
in this entire video first we have
defined and differentiated
the two steps of writing technical
writing and creative writing
saying that technical writing is
straightforward
and does not require wordiness or
imaginative expression on the other hand
in creative writing
creative writing is a style of writing
that goes beyond the conventions or
traditions of
technical literature also we have talked
about three
literary devices which make creative
writing
creative and those are imagery diction
and figures of speech again imagery is
basically descriptive language which
helps the reader better imagine the
world
the writer is trying to create by
appealing to the five senses
which are the sense of taste sight smell
hearing
and touch on the other hand diction is
the writer's
style of writing it is the writer's
choice of words
which reflects his or her style of
expression and finally we have figures
of speech
which add color to our text by
definiting from the literal meaning of
the words
being used and that's it for our first
session thank you very much for staying
with me
until the end of this video i also hope
to see you again
on our next sessions once again i am sir
angie javier
and this is creative writing 101
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